Please Arielle, Listen

Please Arielle; I love you and I don't want anything bad to change our friendship. Please Arielle, listen to how I really feel.

I really don't want to argue
And I don't want to sound so cruel.
It's just that any time I try to talk to you
There he is in all of our conversations.
I feel like you just don't understand
Though you say you really do.
But between the lies and tears I've cried
I wonder if you even care.
You know I don't like him
But I don't know how to get it through to you.
I can't stand being with him;
He has no right to act the way he does.
I know you don't mind when it's between you two,
But I'm not going to let him be so rude to me.
I don't understand why you love him.
All he ever seems to bring you is pain,
But yet you cling to him,
And you care about him
More than you ever cared about me.
I don't want to lose my friend.
I don't want to abandon you.
I don't want to dictate your life.
But please understand me.
Call it jealousy, but it's really not.
It's something deeper,
Something more.
This friendship is too valuable to throw away
And I don't want to cry anymore.
I want to be open with you,
Open about everything.
But I'm afraid you'll take it the wrong way
And hurt yourself again.
I felt so guilty that day I found out
About the cutting.
And I swore to myself I wouldn't let this happen again;
I wouldn't let you do this.
But every time something happens
The guilt comes rushing back.
And I don't want to feel guilty anymore.
I couldn't live with ever knowing
That I contributed to anything bad
That could happen to you.
I want to talk to you as I used to
Back in fourth grade.
Where our biggest worry was
Which kind of sandwich our moms made us.
But I don't want to cry or feel guilty anymore.
I don't want you to cry or feel guilty anymore.
And we don't have to.

"You're a great person, you know that?"

Well so are you.