Loving Me When I Can't Love Myself

At first it was the sound of your voice and the way it seemed you were hiding something

While you were sleeping I noticed your anxious breathing

but I didn't say anything

The hardest part of loving them when they can't love themselves

Is accepting your inability to always make them happy

I know that something is bothering you but I chose to ignore it

The hardest part of loving them when they can't love themselves

Is letting them find happiness in the absence of you

I noticed that each smile seems more forced than the last

The hardest part of loving you when you can't love yourself

Is convincing you that this is not affecting me

You asked me to let you deal with it yourself

The hardest part of loving you when you can't love me

Is hiding from you that something is bothering me

While I was sleeping you noticed my anxious breathing but you didn't say anything

You know that something is wrong

but you chose to ignore it

Each of my smiles seems more forced than the last one

The hardest part of loving me when I can't love myself

Is knowing that I would do the same for you