when we hesitated

I cannot have you wholly

For I fear there isn't space

To house your Self inside me

Without my Self displaced

And so to have you wholly

My Self would then be shed

And left unto the mercy

Of your vacancy instead

And should you not accept me

My Self would go astray

In search of proper shelter

Where it won't be turned away

And should no person satisfy

That dire and desperate need

My fragile Self will wander lost

And finally concede

So I cannot have you wholly

If you will have me not

I, a vessel of resentment

And you, a vacant lot.