LOVE ME IF YOU CAN
By Doris AC Johnson Ma of Psy, ABA

Don’t you dare try to rescue me if your rope is too short
If you’re bouncing around like a ball on the court
If your love is unintentional or if your game is for sport
If you have unresolved feelings that you need to sort
If you are accustomed to girls bred in a chicken coupe
If you can’t say “hello” without loosening your belt loop
If you want me to jump through your fiery hoop
If I’m just a replacement or a substitute
If I’m a joke to onlookers because they know I’m a bet
It I’m just a wet hole and you need an outlet
If you know you are in emotional debt
If what’s special to me, you seem to forget
If your smile is plastic suffocated by a grin
If you’re not even comfortable in the skin you are in
If you are now reducing me to just a friend
Don’t be mad at me if I want it to end
If you don’t have a masterplan
Don’t even practice being the man
It’s THIS way not THAT way
UNDERSTAND

Love me only if you can
If your wounds are still open because scars don’t bleed
If I can’t run into your arms at top speed
If you can’t give what I ask or accept what you need
If I can’t nourish your soul with the love that I feed
If you’re not willing to grow with the best version of me
If when I speak my truth you perjure me
Putting a scrapple to my words like I’m in surgery
And then you beat me down verbally
Only inviting me in to hurry me
Lying to both of us…that worries me
Emotionally unavailable currently
I could never be her as she can never be me
If you paint the perfect picture…switch after bait
And lose yourself in a conundrum when I won’t wait
My cup runeth over/no space on this plate
My emotional checkup is up to date
If I can’t love you and me at the same time
If your reasons and my reasons don’t rhyme
If together we cant walk a straight line
I can walk away and be fine.
I can’t be your rib if you can’t be my rock
Don’t put my heart on your chopping block
I’m not that one for the restart and stop
Somebody will mess around and get molly whopped
Maybe just maybe Chivalry is dead
Are you offended because your rights have been read
If these words don’t make sense in your head
Believe what you will BUT ….
