34 excuses for why we failed at love
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34 Excuses for Why We Failed at Loveby Warsan Shire
1. I’m lonely so I do lonely things2. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.3. You hate women, just like your father and his father, so it runs in your blood.4. I was wandering the derelict car park of your heart looking for a ride home.5. You’re a ghost town I’m too patriotic to leave.6. I stay because you’re the beginning of the dream I want to remember.7. I didn’t call him back because he likes his girls voiceless.8. It’s not that he wants to be a liar; it’s just that he doesn’t know the truth.9. I couldn’t love you, you were a small war.10. We covered the smell of loss with jokes.11. I didn’t want to fail at love like our parents.12. You made the nomad in me build a house and stay.13. I’m not a dog.14. We were trying to prove our blood wrong.15. I was still lonely so I did even lonelier things.16. Yes, I’m insecure, but so was my mother and her mother.17. No, he loves me he just makes me cry a lot.18. He knows all of my secrets and still wants to kiss me.19. You were too cruel to love for a long time.20. It just didn’t work out.21. My dad walked out one afternoon and never came back.22. I can’t sleep because I can still taste him in my mouth.23. I cut him out at the root, he was my favorite tree, rotting, threatening the foundations of my home.24. The women in my family die waiting.25. Because I didn’t want to die waiting for you.26. I had to leave, I felt lonely when he held me.27. You’re the song I rewind until I know all the words and I feel sick.28. He sent me a text that said “I love you so bad.”29. His heart wasn’t as beautiful as his smile30. We emotionally manipulated one another until we thought it was love. 31. Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose you. 32. I’m a lover without a lover. 33. I’m lovely and lonely. 34. I belong deeply to myself.