I sit and write sad songs

where I meld my lovers into one

and cry about the overlap

all the moments I will not get back

I do understand the gradations of knowing 

careful your vulnerability is showing

and I'm so afraid of what I might ask

of all of this shattering like glass

do you love me

do I matter to you

do you think about me without meaning to

what is this thing we've built between

will it hurt me for years like an evergreen