Please

A Poem by Niso

Thinking out loud through words

If you want to leave, just leave.
But first, teach me how to hate you.
Teach me how to live in your absence.
Teach me how to breathe in the ocean of my disappointment.
Teach me how to find hope again.
Teach me how to love.
Teach me how to forgive.
Teach me how to forget.
Teach me how to be normal.
Teach me how to be passionate.
Teach me how to swim in my tears.

But please stay. The nights are dark enough.
The mornings are hard enough.
Please don’t make it harder for me.
Please try to stay.
Please be afraid to lose me.
Please miss me.
Please see me as you did the first time�"forever.
Please don’t change.
Please don’t give up on me.
Please don’t be afraid of me.
Please don’t forget me.
Please don’t name your daughter after me.
Please don’t let me cry when I remember you.
Please let me die before you.

Please, please stay, and don’t be my teacher.