baby don't hurt me

this is how it is: you love them,
and then they are loved by you, and then that is the end of it.
because you love them, and they also love them.
what you fail to understand is what they know;
that we come into this world entirely alone,
that we go out of this world entirely alone,
and the stories in between are all more stale than sad.
so when someone says "all is not lost," all is actually lost,
it is always lost, nothing is ever underneath anything else,
it is always trying to teach us something, or the wrong colour, or just looking the other way.
some things are always missing. or everything is always missing.
it can be hard to remember which. In any case,
learn to love yourself because you can't love anyone until you can love yourself,
and once you love yourself you won't need anyone anyway.
sure, you knew love once, but that was a long time ago and you should forget it now,
now, or it will make you want to die when you put the curtains up,
remembering those times and how everything was.