If you loved me like I love you

You would embrace my flaws and call them perfection

You would inhale me until your lungs burn-- just because you love the high

You would drink me to forget all the bad in the world

You would crave the way I soothe your stress

You would view me as a way of life

You wouldn’t ask of me what I can’t give you

You wouldn’t breathe me in and then cough me out like the cigarettes you say burn your throat

You wouldn’t drink me to impress your friends but throw me up in the morning when you regret me

You wouldn’t chew me up and spit me out like the tobacco you don’t even like

You wouldn’t view me as an addiction.

Reviews

[An owl on the moon]

What a powerful, moving glimpse of love... the metaphors incite the mind and heart into knowing what brings you joy.. and what rips you apart in days and nights of loving...

[Katie]

thank you :)

[nazia]

So true. love is always selfless. it never asks nor demands. A person who truly loves you would never asl you to change especially for his sake. Well expressed Katie :)

[Katie]

thank you so much! :)