Don't Go

Ballade - Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five.  All stanzas end with the same one line refrain.
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All I ever wanted has slipped away from me.
I'm sorry, for everything I did to everybody
I never meant any harm - I swear.
I simply wanted to help, to love you, to care...
If I knew this would be the turnout of all this
I'd have simply left everything dismissed.
I'd would have died when I had no reason to live...
...but now that I do
I don't know what it's all worth without you.
I'm an empty shell of a man, walking this earth for others as much as I can.

"Kill me now!" I plead, but I'm not sure if I mean it.
I'm familiar with death, I'm simply not sure if I'm ready to greet it.
Do I want to die?  Will that fix everything?
I'm not sure; I'm honestly not sure of anything!
I'm lost - terribly, terribly lost
in a place I'm unfamiliar with, one I can't trust
I want to go Home,
to the place I know...
but I don't know what it's all worth without you.
I'm an empty shell of a man, walking this earth for others as much as I can.

Do you hear me?  Do you hear me silently scream?
I'm reaching out to you, but I'm being careful not to be too extreme.
All I want is for you to take my hand
All I desire is for you to be my girl, and I to be your man
Neither of us belong to one another.
We both simply belong to each other.
That's all I want, that's all I choose,
is to make you happy, but not to lose.
you, because I don't know what anything's worth without you.
I'm an empty shell of a man, walking this earth for others as much as I can.

Please.
I'll be a better man.
I'll change.
I'll do whatever I can.
I honestly don't know what to do without you.
I'm an empty shell of a man, walking this earth for you, however I can.

Author's Note

Artwork not mine.