Why can't we be friends?

I have tried to get rid of it
This love I have for you
I have abused it....
Cursed it through and through
I have treated it badly
Like you did to me...
Hoping somehow, this way
I would be set free...
of these invisible ties that bind
your life, somehow, to mine.
I wanted to dislike you
since I couldn't hate
but love and you...
resolved my fate...
to love you still, after all
This curse then, love, is my downfall.
It will be with me
until I'm dead as dead can be
and even then...
Will it follow me?
Why can't you make me hate you
at least then...
I could forget I love you
and not want to be your friend.

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