sad but true.
i want to but i can’t
can you wait for me?
can you be my friend for now?
can you help me understand me?
can you stand beside me?
can you wait?
because i want to but i can’t!
i love you but i have to love myself first
i hope you will still be there when i’m ready.
Am I in love? — Yes, since I’m waiting.” The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: “I am the one who waits.
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Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
i love you but i can’t. i’m too selfish to let you stay. :( |
