I HATE YOU

You’re the line between love and hate,

Such an atrocity and lovely at the same time.

You’re the reason why I hate you,

You’re the marmalade that sweetens me up,

And the gluttony that kills me.

You’re an expedient, yet I want you to stay forever,

I HATE YOU, but I need you.

 

You’re the lecture that bores me,

The news that informs me,

And the leech that sucks me dry.

You’re why I cut and bleed,

And you’re my reason to be healed.

You are my go between,

I HATE YOU, but I need you.

 

You’re the panegyric read at my funeral,

It is you who knows me best.

You are my paralysis, without you I cannot live.

You’re my air, but with you I want to die.

You are scrupulous, never misinformed,

But then again your knowledge is retired,

I HATE YOU, but I need you, but I HATE YOU.

-Maliyah

Date unknown.