Stop Loving You

• Connie Townsend, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2022

I built up the walls
I went through the withdrawal
yet every time you spoke my walls would break
every choice I make with you is a mistake
You carved your name upon my heart
Eventually you'll tear it apart.
I’m too afraid to stop loving you.
What have I gotten into?
I don’t want to let you leave
Because every time you do I grieve.
I’ll never forget the way say my name
and the truth is, you aren’t to blame.
So, I let the walls break
for you it's worth the ache.
Something I always knew…
was that I can’t stop loving you.