Jettison My Heart

💥 They say love is a battlefield
But the war won’t have me
Because of my preconditions?
Gee, thanks, society.

Why do you declare my asexuality—

As just cause for why for you cannot date me?

Why should my self-recognized genderless status—

Change how you’ve previously felt about me?

Just because I don’t prioritize sexual activity

That doesn’t mean my romantic feelings aren’t reality.

Just because I don’t recognize gender being specific to me
Doesn’t mean I’m at all asking you to change how you see.

I haven’t ascribed myself to any specific pronouns.

I’m not even changing my name or how it’s pronounced.
Everything that I am you’ve already been accustomed to
Minus the labels I now use to help define my own truth.

You’ve become disillusioned by the definitions
Of the realities shown for what you’ve always known.
But for some reason you’ve let prejudice take control
Leaving our blossoming relationship overthrown.

We could have become one of those picturesque stories

The type others can’t help but be envious of & instead?

Now we shall never know what could have been

Because your side of an adult conversation was left unsaid.

Isn’t communication supposed to be the corner stone
of all healthy relationships?
Why was it so hard for you to contribute
1 verse, a stanza, maybe just a couples lines or even a quip?

I was there to lift some of your burdens
and even when it got heavy, I stayed
because even if we never got romantic,
a lasting friendship, I thought, would have been worth it.

I guess I was wrong
Let’s not prolong it.
This is my goodbye song
Let me jettison my heart— 

I’m done with this dating shit
I quit!