Of Loving You

I know with the right love I can learn honesty
And the value of feeling safe as myself.
My dirty hands won’t need to wash you away
If I can use love to fill what you left behind.

You’ll be gone forever when I love again.
I know how that must scare you
Because I fight to keep you away
And know the cost of letting you in.

Out of what I am I can create beauty.
No matter how black you made me
I can do that and always will
In defiance and tribute

of loving you