Just a boy

You're just a boy:
I could easily replace you with another,
if I want to.

You're just a boy:
with dreams yet to happen,
with a heart as scarred
and broken as mine.

You're just a boy -
no different than every other boy -
who has stolen pieces of me
and doesn't even know it;
who is breaking my soul bit by bit
and can't even do anything about it.

Because you're just a boy:
you're in need of someone to fight for you
as badly as I need someone to stay with me.
And you are as scared of love,
as I am of losing you.

And you're just a boy:
I can't leave even if I'd want to.
Because you're the one and only boy
I can give myself to.
The only boy who got
this close to my threshold,
and who won my heart
without trying to.

You're just a boy:
I could easily replace you with another,
but I just don't want to.

© iris@journalsofanaddict.august2009