what do these words mean?
you say you lived with the idea
of giving me everything and
there is no way it can work

i sit here and wonder about them
i turn them over and over, looking
for some meaning besides
you are not good enough

is love that awful, or is it just loving me?
can you predict only disaster
as if i were a concrete block
shackled to your ankle, dragging you into the dark?

i think there may be some lack in you
so that you fear to swim
with the weight of a jewel on a delicate chain
hanging from your neck