love

she said "love means using your heart to care, your mind to figure out what is good for someone (now and in the future), then, working hard to make that good thing happen"

love. such a silly game we play.
so now that your heart cares about me
the ball is in your court
that's what i told you
and i saw the look on your face
before you turned and walked away
your voice muffled as you said
"goodnight, elizabeth"
with your back to me
and that was the second part
where you thought about what was best
for me, but also for you, i think
but walking away, was that supposed to be good for me?
did you make that decision to keep me from getting hurt?
to prevent a terrible goodbye?
but what if we would have put in the work?
...thrown the hail mary pass
bet on the longshot
maybe we would have won big
maybe we could have fulfilled that definition of love

listening to: love by matt white