Tell Me How Not To Love You Poem by Edwina Reizer

Tell me how not to love you
for I do not know.
I do not know how to tell my heart
that it must try to beat slow.

It speeds up at the thought of you
and makes my mind race.
Tell me how not to love you
for I cannot face

empty days with longing
that drift on and on.
Tell me how not to love you
with each new breath that's drawn.

Tell me how not to love you.
I will listen but not whole heartedly.
For I know I won't believe you
so you must convince me repeatedy.