The Easier Path

The Easier Path

It is easier to choose someone

who does not ask for your soul at once,

who does not press against your wounds

and ask to know their names.

It is easier to love someone

who laughs at the right times,

who stays on the surface,

who never pulls you into the deep.

And maybe that is why he turned.

Not because I was unworthy,

but because I was too much like truth—

and truth,

for him,

was unbearable.