Good/Bad/Love/Hope

You are so good

Much too good

And I am so bad

Just a bit too much

And so as opposites slide

So of course you'd have my love

And of course I can never have yours

For this is how the world deals with us

The star cross'd lovers, or just lover in this case

But I cannot let myself believe

I cannot think it may be true

That all this love I feel

Is simply wasted on you

That you cannot feel it

You cannot see it

You do not know

Not even a bit

So I shall hold on to hope

Not the hope of your love's return

But I shall hold on to hope that just maybe

Maybe you know how my heart bleeds for you

Maybe you know what pain I feel when I hear your name

And that will be enough for me

No word or act in return

Nothing at all from you

Just the hope that you know

That I am not abandoned

Or forgotten

That is all

All I can hope for now

Because I am so very good

Good at hoping at the thing lost

So I shall be good at hoping

And you can be good at being so good

And when you smile at me so sweetly

I'll pretend that the smile is for me

Because I can't do anything else

Because I am so bad

and you are so good