The Chief Consent

You be the prettiest in town, the most beautiful one I’ve seen in all my life.
You be at the very heights of youth and charm.
You be getting promises then, of love, unconditional, uncompromised.
And to be there in your good days and bad ones.
But I don’t wish to love you then, then when there's everyone around,
And when it’s all a merry.

I wish to love you when you cannot look upon yourself in the mirror,
Or struggle to make an eye contact.
Then when you’d be toxic and extrude maligning words.
Cause time’s got to turn and people to fade.

For if you leave me halfway, I’ll walk back, still longing.
If  you let me cry through the day, I’ll make you laugh in the night.
And if we ever happen to be on a run, I’ll have you in my arms, safe and sound.
Pray your hardships find, in my being, a target at hand. 
As there’s no world where, you be sad, and I take a breath.

And it’s not that I don’t love myself,
But it’s that I love you a little more.