My heart breaks for you, my sweet. You are alone in the world and I am standing in front of you, trying to keep the wind from knocking you down trying to keep the train from crushing you trying to kee

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My heart breaks for you, my sweet.

You are alone in the world

and I am standing in front of you,

trying to keep the wind from knocking you down

trying to keep the train from crushing you

trying to keep the rain away

all in vain.

I want to love you and I want you to love me

but we are so broken!

And I only wish that I were like Catullus,

that I could value the rumors of old men at a penny

but I cannot! I cannot!

I cannot bear the quietly disdainful eye of my father,

I cannot be your mother and your lover,

I cannot defend you all the time.

I want, so desperately, to love you.

I will try

but I will fail.