Love Inceptions Poem by Ryan David Ginsberg

Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve love
Like I'm not good enough for someone to waste their love on
Love fills the air, so I don't take a whiff
The smell so strong, but I won't take a sniff
Dodging Cupid's arrows as he tries to lure me in
Because love is a game that I can never win
I have tried and I have failed
But it has rained and it has hailed
So I throw up my umbrella
Trying to avoid the glass slipper of Cinderella
Trying to get out of this storm
Because so many cuts and scars have formed
All these bandages on my chest
Love has taken my heart, eaten it up, and digested
So I sit here and try to recover
Umbrella over my head to hide under
So many fish swimming in this flood
And in the water drops a few drops of blood
Soon the surrounding water is dark red
From all this blood I have shed
As my body begins to feel weak
Cupid looks at me and says he is on the brink
So he tries to whip something up
But in the end it just tears me up
The angel stabbing me with her horns
Leaving me once again torn
Leaving me to drown in my own sorrows
As love continues with its broken promise
With all these broken perceptions
Thrown into my head these love inceptions
Saying that love is supposed to heal
Then why is pain all I have come to feel?
Love continues to take its stabs
Taking so many I can hardly keep tabs
I just look down to my marked body
And think of all the memories they embody
Guess love is something I just lack
Soon enough Cupid just turns his back
Flaps his wings and flies away
Love will just have to wait another day