I Am A Coward

I love you.

Yet I am a coward.

I have loved you longer

Than I have ever loved myself.

But I can't tell you that.

I will love you from a distance

Silently.

Because I'm too scared to go up to you.

And I feel that

It could never work out between us.

Because you're you

Dazzling, Gorgeous, Perfect.

And I'm only plain old me.

And I'm afraid things'll go wrong.

So I'm left here to love the idea of you

What you symbolize in my mind

Love.

Because I don't want to suffer openly.

Since I am a coward.