I loved you,
It\'s true I did!
I loved your laughter
It was my best---- and worst medicine
I loved your eyes
And how they spoke
When you choked
On smoky words shoved down your throat
I loved your touch
Gentle and soft
Rough hands from working aloft,
And I loved, I loved
The way you said my name,
As if spoken in a cursive tongue
That I just couldn\'t name,
A hint of laughter in those dark dark eyes
A hint of sadness too
That I couldn\'t describe,
You reminded me of a daisy
Innocent and pure
But does that mean I was the belladonna?
Perhaps a fern,
Pointy and poisonous
A bane on this Earth,
And I know I said I loved you
And I mean it, I did,
I will love you till the Earth stops spinning
And spins again
But sometimes upon this spinning
Earth, I need to choose
To love me first,
So I\'ll love you,
Like a book,
Stuffed on the shelf,
Forgotten upon the memories I held:
I\'ll love you quietly
Till my heart settles down,
I\'ll love not you
But the memory upon the shelf.