this is how i would love you, if i loved you

i would tone down all the blacks to greys at least

i would be the best version of me that i know how to be
i would end it all
i'd bruise myself taping poetry to your walls

i would let you change the song, mid-song

i would not keep anything for myself anymore
i'd let you instruct me when coming across things i don't know

i'd keep us young

that is how i would love you

if i loved you