I Love You. I Hate You. Don’t Go.
With morning sunshine comes a brand-new day,
I love you. I hate you. In this game that we play.
A smile carefully crafted just to deceive,
Your heart is broken, but hey — I won’t leave.
I love you. I hate you. Just don’t let it end.
We’ll rewrite the damage again and again.
A roller coaster we refuse to stop,
Weakening the will before every drop.
Trapped in a loop, a sick cycle we know,
I love you. I hate you. Still won’t let go.
The highs are stronger than I thought I could feel,
The lows twist my mind, but the love feels so real.
I scream, then I beg for you to stay,
I love you. I hate you. Don’t walk away.
The moment the sun shines, I remember the fall,
Then storm clouds hurry and smother it all.
They drag me back to my personal hell,
Where love feels like poison I can’t help but sell.
The truth is louder than it’s ever been,
But resentment lingers just under the skin.
Like the air that we breathe, it grows heavy once more,
I love you. I hate you. Don’t walk out the door.
I try to recall the promises made,
But memories blur like light through the shade.
Empty words I no longer believe,
I love you. I hate you. There’s no time to grieve.
We’ve turned our secrets into sharpened blades,
Our pain on display in violent parades.
We fight like enemies who once touched grace,
I love you. I hate you. I’d never replace
The version of us before all the blows,
Before love became something nobody chose.
I love you to death and can’t let you go,
I’ll smother your happiness just so you know.
Loving you means I’ll treat you worse than a foe,
Blind to the damage that continues to grow.
As long as you stay when my emotions falter,
I’ll love you to death all the way to the altar.
I’ll beg you to bleed, then tend to the scar,
I love you. I hate you. Don’t ever go far.
I love you. I hate you. Don’t go. Just stay.
We ruin each other in beautiful ways.
And still, when the silence has swallowed us slow,
I whisper, “I love you. I hate you. Don’t let me go.”
6/21/2026
The Words That Got to Me
"We ruin each other in beautiful ways." really? To each, his own, in this rollercoaster ride, which even at the end, too much had already been said for it to sound beautiful, to me.
well, congratulations, Heather! I hope this is fiction because...I'm assuming the protag is a female, ...she epitomizes the saying, "destructive love." Such off and on emotions, so strongly and deeply felt but that change so quickly, do not a stable person portray. (IMHO) wow. The poem tends to wear one out, keeping up with her emotions. Although her last version sounds like she loves him again, who knows what tomorrow brings. A good portrayal of a very mixed up person, which was probably not your intent. Maybe the intent is she loves him in spite of .....