I Have to Give You Up - Visitor's Love Poem

by Otrebor Zerimar Euqor
(Makati, Philippines)

I have to give you up, though I have not gotten over you yet
I need to let go of you, before it becomes too late
This feeling that I have for you, I cannot let you know
For we are world apart; having that generation gap.

I know it is not right for me to have this feeling for you
For I am still bounded by the vow I gave years ago.
But the love I am feeling right now
Is of greater degree than the one I had
When I gave that vow to someone else I knew.

So please don’t take this against me
For I am just a mere mortal
Subject to fall for someone like you
Young, vibrant, full of life, through and through!

You can hate me, despise me, loathe me if you want
But I can not help myself to love you the way I do
And for me to explain to you why I did so
You need to take my heart out for you to know.

Do not say that I did not take good care of the trust you gave me
I know that you look up to me like a big brother that I can be.
But the more I tried to suppress this feeling
The deeper it gets to my inner being.

So I am letting you go, though it pained me to do so
For I know this feeling I have will not grow in you.
And if our paths may cross again someday
Please remember, I have to give you up
Not because I want to but because I know
This is the best thing for me to do!