Is it you?

You're a beautiful man

Please be different from the rest

Please be better than the best of the best
I've met

I can't take much more of the

well-disguised raggedy-ness

I can't put my heart on the line

I can't engage these emotions of mine

not when it's all for naught

I'm glad to know men like you exist

but at the same time, I'm pissed

you make it hard

it would be easier if you disappeared

if you had never been here

by now I would have wrapped my mind around

the reality

I would have accepted it

I wouldn't know better

The best would pale in comparison to you
and yet still make me swoon

I guess that's what they mean

when they say you bring out the best in me

without you I could only settle

for what I thought was worthy

with you I'm at my best

because only the best could slow my step up

only someone like you could catch my eye

but if you're the same

if I haven't learned how to identify

the good from the better from the best

be polite and say hello

but be kind enough to quickly say goodbye

if you don't, I'll free-fall for you

you'll be all but catching me

I'll stumble away scratched and bruised

feeling hurt and used,

saying,

I wish you meant nothing to me

since it seems I mean so little to you.

So here's my disclaimer

my warning, my flashing lights

look me in my eyes

speak slowly

and tell me what's true.
Are you clothed in a beautiful disguise,

a lie,

or is it really finally you, the truth?