I Still Carry You Poem by Loraine Lotter

I did my best to say I’ll carry you.
When you hate me enough to leave,
please don’t return with my heart.

Blame me for not understanding
when your thoughts were left unspoken,
when absence left your soul broken.

I don’t know how this bitter judgement
can overpower what now lies ended.
But you were the one who said it. You said it.

‘Cause I’ll still cradle me in your arms,
even when you hate me enough to leave.
Please just don’t return with my heart.

Just never think about it now.
Holding onto me in the rain outside,
Please don’t tell me when it’s goodbye.

For nothing can be done
and there ain’t a fight in me left.
I did my best to say I’ll carry you,
and I swear I did, I swear I do.