I like the way he's looking at me,

His blue eyes are alight with desire...

He likes to push every boundary I set,

We like burning, and playing with fire...

He pursues,

I run,

I duck and I cover,

Then I look back, is he giving chase?

With a satisfied grin, I take off again;

'Til he catches me in his embrace.

For just a few minutes or a few months,

We're in love, we're head over heels.

Then he starts to panic, then I get manic;

And we're running again from the feels.

This time it's him, he's running so fast;

I run after like a bat out of hell.

All the while knowing I'm acting a fool,

Slim chance for this love to end well.

"Darling, come back!" I'm calling his name.

Who needs pride? I'm not above pleading.

I show him my tears, he exploits my fears,

He says, "God, you're gorgeous when you're bleeding."

I remind him he swore to be my rock.

I remind him of the promises he made.

Tricks I was taught, lies that I bought,

I'll say whatever it takes to persuade.

Until I'm exhausted, I'm out of breath;

I'm slowing, I can't run anymore.

He's so far beyond,

he's missing,

he's gone.

But all's fair in both love and war.

Looking over his shoulder, so far ahead;

He can see I've fallen too far behind.

And now he's unsure, like me, insecure;

He's worried that I changed my mind.

"What are you doing?" He yells from afar.

I'm stomping away in a huff.

"I'm sick of your shit!" I let him have it.

Our love hurts, and I've had enough.

I'm finished with us, I'm done with him.

I take off in a whole new direction.

"Babes, come back!" He's calling my name.

He never learned to handle rejection.

I refuse to look back, I keep pressing on,

He deserves to feel just how it hurts.

Our love is twisted, it's broken like us;

Maybe this pain is our just deserts.

He's in pursuit, I'm running away;

I glance back and blow him a kiss.

He's drawing near, he's almost here,

I let him catch me, I can't resist.

He grabs my waist, pulls me in close,

A magic moment, until the moment is gone.

Then he's running away, I'm ready to play;

It's my turn to give chase. Game on!

We want gender equality, yet we persist in gender inequity.

Women are always weaker and sexualized.

Men are always stronger and sexual offenders.

We say to tell the truth, but the truth is often met with ostracism.

How could you tell the truth if it meant you would lose everything?

How can you not be a liar, when it's the only way for everyone to be happy?

We say not to judge, but we judge people wrongly all the time, automatically.

Just because she's a plus size you call her disgusting.

Just because he likes guys and girls you think he's not worth loving.

The human mind-

The worlds greatest paradox.

It contains simultaneously

Joy at a wedding,

But sadness as the spouse

Walks away, to leave the home

Of their ancestors forever.

At the birth of a child

We feel terror at the prospect of

Becoming parents, yet

Unbelievable ecstasy

At the new life now

Crying to the world.

How can one person

Experience such contradictory

Emotions?

A mound of tissue smaller than

A loaf of bread

Can contain a million

Thoughts, a million different

Facets of human emotion,

That pull us in a galaxy of

Directions, and it seems

As if we will be torn to shreds,

But still we manage to hold

It all together.

How do we do it?

Humans

Humane

Humanity

Yet we are the cruellest, most thoughtless species on earth!

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