Fountain of Youth

“Can I trust you with this key?

I won’t beg this time, or plead.

I will just wait and see,

If, God forbid, you belong with me.”

These were the words I asked myself,

If I was yours and with no one else.

I have yet to find someone new;

It feels like just yesterday we were introduced.

When the day came that we finally met,

I hoped that the end was not one we’d regret.

But the pace was not something I follow,

As I had hoped not to feel so hollow.

Maybe this is all in my mind;

What was I supposed to find?

Something feeling left behind,

I don’t think I’ve yet defined.

I don’t think I really feel it yet,

But I don’t want you to be upset.

So I’ll just tell you this straight—

I don’t want to carry this weight.

I don’t love you like you love me,

It’s weird as I thought this wouldn’t leave.

I thought this is something more possibly,

But all this was was curiosity.

It hasn’t been this long, just a few weeks,

You added colour to my world so bleak.

But something down the road made me ask the truth,

I don’t think I’ll go down your fountain of youth.

I’m not gonna build you up just to crash you down,

As I know how it feels to be on the ground.

I want you to just live for you,

And not because I want you to.