Show Up

Would you say you tried your hardest?

Would you say you tried at all?

How hard would it have been

to answer my call?

Would you say you truly suffer

when you do a simple thing?

I know you know real people

who know real suffering.

Show up, show up, show up

or I won’t.

No love, no love, no love

is this cold.

It’s getting hard to fit

your bedding on the couch.

It used to have a dent to settle into;

we have nothing now.

Spaces I made for you

are turning themselves dark.

I only know they’re there

from the distortions of my heart.

Show up, show up, show up

or just don’t.

No love, no love, no love

is this remote.

I’ve seen you put more effort

into unimportant things.

If they bring you such happiness,

what am I to bring?

Show up, show up, show up

or I won’t.

No love, no love, no love

is this cold,

I’m told.