you say                

 
                you love me 
 
like its     
 
                drinking poison from a cup 
 
you say 
 
                i haven’t changed
 
                        hard headed
 
                                stuck in my ways
 
    i have grown 
 
in ways you can’t see 
 
               because you won’t look 
 
to you i am trapped 
 
    in the body of a teenager with a wandering spirit
 
            caught under the control of another
 
free will? 
 
    never heard of it 
 
                until now
 
                                i am a woman 
 
 
 
you say    
 
                you love me 
 
but 
 
                can you see 
 
    the efforts the steps the wisdom the process the years of therapy 
 
shaping my mind 
 
        i am not the same person 
 
                yet my soul meets yours halfway 
 
 
 
you say 
 
                you love me 
 
                                in the middle 
 
                                    maybe you do
 
but can you love me 
 
    truly as the person i am the person i want to be
 
do you have the patience to let me grow 
 
you say
 
                you love me 
 
    but i am calling your 
 
            bluff