I’m sure it won’t be me

when you find yourself ready

I’ve been on the end of this before

I just beg you to let me down gently

and that we at least stay somewhat connected

because I’m not sure I’d be able to take it

if I lost that smiling face of hers

I know I feel so strongly for the both of you

and that you have to be a package deal

I also hear the nagging voice

from the back of my own head

saying what you both deserve

that I can’t measure up to

but for my own slim sanity

and sense of self-preservation

I have to ask to stick around

a part of her world until she can choose

She may in time outgrow me

just like I fear you will

and I’ll have to find the strength to deal

with such possibility somewhere

but not here, not now,

nor anytime soon

I’m not too full of pride to plead

Don’t misunderstand me

I don’t want to see you go

but I fear from some experience

there’s little here to keep you

So I try to steel myself

bracing for the worst to come

and asking past what I could hope

that you might pull the blow

and leave some small ray of hope

behind you when you go

This story has already been written

and I’ve always hated the ending

and yet here we go again

Another Hollywood retread

Let’s hope this time

the writers tweaked the tale

so the poor little lovesick fool

doesn’t suffer quite so much

or for nearly as long

Maybe they even dared enough

to change that horrid ending

(but I wouldn’t hold my breath)

I mean, names and details changed already

so why can’t where this goes

be a brighter, happier moment

than the last version?

Happy endings sell, y’know?

And not everything realistic

has to be all moody and depressing.

Let the love story be requited, for once.

We already see how important she’s become to him

now may she come to realize

that he means just as much to her

Don’t let this one end in struggle

This story doesn’t have to tell a lesson

All it needs is our two heroes

finding each other

and learning that their lives are better

together rather than apart

That simple, that straightforward

No twist, no trick,

no after credits scene

Just a much better ending

than the film that came before

(Have I mentioned how I hated that old ending?)