should you be mine?
am i worthy,
of your time,
your emotions,
your tears
your frustrations?

i bring out
the worst in you
is it possible
that i could also
bring forth
the best you can be?

if i hold on
longer than everyone else
if i have it in me
to wait patiently
will you come?
will you sit with me
sometimes and promise
me one day
you'll stop running away?

if i push
hard enough
will you give in?
if i pull
fiercely enough
will you eventually bend?
will you yield, cave in, concede
if i never admit defeat?

one step forward
three steps back
you are more distant from me
than when we started
swiftly pulling away
will i, one day get
to where you are?

will you stop
allow me to catch up
or will you take off farther away
till there's no more trace
of you ever being here?