baby, come home.

what do you do when you let go of someone you love?
do you hope for them to come back some day, do you wait patiently, remain faithful,
or do you make amends and carry on?
what do you do if this someone is the one?
i mean, the one.
how do you cope with your mistakes?
how do you watch them be lured in by someone new?
someone tall and thin and beautiful,
a model, a gazelle,
a fraud.
do you let go, do you let him succumb to his weaknesses,
just to hope that he'll survive?
or do you beg, and plead, and implore him to preserve his sanity?
what do you do when the one finally says, "i don't know if i love you anymore"?
do you ask him if he knows what love is?
do you teach him all you've learned, flood him with examples, and hope to ignite understanding?
or do you wait, maybe not so patiently, for him to realize that love isn't as simple as he thinks?
what do you do when fails to see the future you once held together?
when her illicit, explicit figure blocks the light from his view?
do you toss back the shades and debate with an enslaved man?
or do you pray that she trips and pulls the curtains down herself?

how do you remind the one you love,
that he too loves you?