Love Poem: The Games
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Written by: Shahana Jackson

The Games

The games 

    When you look at me do you get tired of the things that I tried to pretend? 
     Do you get mad when I don't look at you? 
     Do you even pay attention to the way i'm hurting?
     It's true that I never got over you 
      it's true that my world stopped the day you left
        it's true that i'm afraid 
         afraid of what this feeling could really mean
         You see the games I play
         There're not games just protection for my heart
           Cause I don't want to feel like this
            I don't want you to have the power
               the power to break my heart
                I'm trying not to give you all of me
                 Even though I want things to be how they used to 
                    I wish and pray you could stay
                      than I hope that you would just leave
                         leave me alone
                         Let me live without this pining for you
                            close my eyes and your all I see
                            Go to parties and your all I want to be with 
                               It's strange how you have this power over me
                               I don't want to feel this way
                                    Yet I embrace it everyday
                                          It's crazy how I feel
                                            I just want to be real
                                                I'm tired of tryna conceal 
                                                  The real reasons I avoid you
                                                        It pains me each day how I treat you 
                                                           I wish I could stop all the games 
                                                                and just be with you
                                                    But in the end it's really me i'm tryna Protect  
                                                              me whose ruining everything we ever built
                                                                         with games that cost more than anything
                                                                                  I'm sick of running 
                                                                                         Time for the truth