- I'm a romantic failure.

- I keep trying to accept it

- more fully.

- Some of it's just from

- quitting.

- I had potential.

- Sometimes I could even say

- "We had potential."

- It hurts but so does life.

- No one escapes all pain.

- Why do I think it matters?

- The world is not so desperate

- for one more lover.

- My sitting the rest of this

- life out is not a tragedy.

- Yet my heart keeps trying

- to convince me it is.

- Still, what it says

- is worth nothing to anyone

- when the time comes,

- and so I do no one any

- favors by listening so much.