DON'T and DO

Please, I beg you to make this easy

Don't look at me with love in your eyes

I'm afraid I'll realize

That it's you I want to be with

Please, I plead to you don't confuse me

Don't hold me in your arms

I'm scared that your sweet charms

Will make me want to stay

Please, I ask that you don't stand too close

Don't place your soft lips on mine

I'm worried that in that pause in time

My resolve will melt away

Please, hold me and take me into your soul

Don't let me go or ever let it end

After it's over, we can both try to pretend

it's not love that's shared between us

Please, forgive me though I can't forgive myself

Don't ever let your heart stop loving me

I dream in another life we are meant to be

Though in this story I belong to someone else

Carla M. Guevara, June 1999