YOU DON'T LOVE HIM ENOUGH / how is it that you have the power / to judge how much i love him / you cannot pour the feeling out / from the gaping hole / in your heart / you cannot take a measuring cup and say / oh, that's how much
YOU DON'T DESERVE HIM / why is it that you get to decide / whomever gave you the power / to weigh another woman's heart / and say that yours is heavier / that yours is more real / that the butterflies in your stomach exist / because you cut it open and they're there / but they are dead, long past now / but you say / look, it's them / they are here / and so he chooses you / because you have evidence / from your red eyes / to your raw wrists / that you've sacrificed more for him / so take him / take him like you deserve him
I LOVE HIM MORE / yes, yes, yes / your love is worth more than mine / is it not? / yours glows more brightly / beats at a faster pace / burns hotter than mine does / it's practically molten / your love for him fills gallons and gallons and gallons / yes, yes, yes / you are right / because love is measured with the superficiality / of cups, of pints, of quarts, of liters, of gallons / of grams, of ounces, of pounds, of kilograms
YES, YES, YES / i think i see it now
- THE SUPERFICIALITY OF LOVE [ALTERNATIVELY NAMED: LOVE COMES IN DOSES - 6.28.16]
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