teach me how to love?

i want to love you,

i know i yearn so deeply for it.

i want you to love me.

but the fear that there's a catch,

catches in my throat once more.

i can't,

ill cry.

but i could, i could, i could,

i could if i'd let me.

i could if anyone had ever taught me how to,

had ever warned me that you might come,

that my love and my pain would always exist intertwined.

i don’t know who you are,

but i hope you can repent the sins i carry that aren’t mine.