Lost Without Me Poem by jerica singleton

I have tried to live without hurt.However I have held it in for many years. Welcoming new hurt like a distant cousin at a family reunion.
I found peace in times of it
As it is always around. It's like my own personal best friend. When I'm up, it comes around to remind me that it will never leave. When I'm down it taints me more, telling me I can trust in it. And I believe it cause it never leaves. I've ran faster than Flo, I moved to a different state leaving everything behind. I changed my name like I was a secret agent. I change my looks constantly as if incognito. Yet it always find me clinging to whatever I love. Commanding them; ordering them to bring it back to me. That it misses having me around. It's lonely without me it says. It needs me it says. Begging them, pleading it's case until they all do as it says. And how can I give up on something that never lets me down. Hey I mean, I can count on it to do exactly what its meant to do. It must be the missing piece of me. Cause I can't destroy it without killing me. What can I do when hurt loves me more than anything, but stay as there is no where else to go...