love me not

 
love me tonight you'll hate me later
I promise you...
I'm what you crave not what you need

lover please pause before you pursue me further
I'm a disaster... your future's undoing
don't you see the danger signs flashing in neon?

sex calls us deeper in
I tell you it's a trap
I see our future...a dead end road
holding tightly to one another
because no one else will have us

a fall from grace so great
our families will turn their backs on us
are you prepared for that type of pain?
you have no idea you've never felt that

I couldn't endure the shame of it
I have to keep my head for the both of us
if it were just sex I would consider it

we can't because we're falling--
in love with each other
it's clear in your eyes
and on my soul I burn for you

we've been cursed with a love
that can not...should not be
but is none the less

causing us to burn with lust
a wildfire of passion
it's forbidden

you're angry at my indecision
to you it's all so simple
we would move away together
forget out families
don't you understand we would be hated?

I couldn't bear it
speaking from experience
you're too young and sheltered to understand
what it is to have no one left to call
when you're in too deep

to be a ship at sea
anchor-less
hopeless
adrift