maybe only the crazy can love you in poetry

Everyone says you gotta love yourself
but maybe it’s more like an arranged marriage
where you just accept this is who
you’re permanently stuck with.
It’s not an innate thing
it’s not something you start with,
you gotta learn to love yourself.
You gotta get used to being you
and find the things to love about that person.
Everyone says you gonna love yourself
but they make it sound so easy when they say that.
It takes real work and thought and faith
to figuring out how love yourself.
At least it does for me.

Okay because
okay because
okay because because because…
even weird lookin’ people,
even us weird lookin’ people,
sometimes you can catch
that one angle where they’re beautiful,
that angle their lover sees all the time.
Depending how you feel that day,
it will either warm your heart
or fucking break it.

Because okay okay okay
when you’re awesome but a little bit broken inside
some days very much broken inside
and maybe only the crazy can love you,
you still need love.
You know?

If crazy’s all that can love you
if they have to be crazy to see
the awesome hidden deep inside
the shards and scraps and pieces
then you’re gonna have to learn
you’ll have to learn
to love the crazy back.

Because you still need love.
I do.
You do.
Whatever we’re into,
we all need love.
And that’s okay.

But try to not get hurt along the way.
If you can.