Dear, Innocent Girl I envy you so much. You have all the life you can have. I used to be like that. Vibrant. Gregarious. Exuberant. Now, I feel as though I'm a skeleton like I'm a shell so hollow I want to save you. Because you fell in love. You are, right now I cannot do anything but watch you as you cry rub your back as if that would mend the fractures of your foundation I want to take your place because I have been empty for too long and he cannot destroy anything in me because there is nothing left I want to be the one to receive those blows to your body those insults spat at your face those things done to your innocence I want you to know love Because you, and all others deserve it, even I We deserve love, innocent or not Broken or whole Gay or straight Lost or forgotten I envy you but I want to save you and I want to take your place Because I can't be broken any further than I am now I want you to know love because you are love You can give it now to someone far more worthy. Go. Live. Love.