For you I could

This poem is for the people who had a rough time in previous relationships romantic ones or family ones which makes them uneasy about joining new ones. Hopefully some of you can relate.

How am I supposed to live, With everything I've done

I look back and all I see is pain

Pain that's washed away like sidewalk chalk on a rainy day

How am I supposed to smile?

When I never got to be a child

The simple things that people treasure, Like family get togethers 

No pain, just pure pleasure

I've never known what it's like

To have parents that didn't fight

All my life people have walked away

How am I to know you won't do the same?

I fear that you don't comprehend how much heart break I've had to withstand

All I've ever done is ran

From all the problems that I've been faced with

To scared to stand up so I say I can't take it

How am I supposed to love?

When so many times I've gave everything, To let it all hang by a string

Been broken to the point where I can't even think

So fragile and so weak, I can hardly even speak

How can I forget it all?

Let go of my past and let myself fall

It scares me the way you make me feel

Is this time different do we have something real?

How can I be the girl I once was?

That loved hopelessly 

Laughed endlessly

Lived purposefully

You give me the strength to love again, for you I could, for you I am