By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student

I see the phrase “Please, don’t be in love with someone else” a lot.
And it’s never resonated with me,
But yet I still sing it in each song I find it in,
each poem that holds it,
and think about it in most childhood memories with such vigor you would have thought it was my own feelings.
I think it’s because of my odd skill at molding my emotions.
I have so much extra grief, anger, and doubt that I find no trouble in feeling it willy-nilly.
It’s the reason I can cry on demand.
But the one emotion I can’t trick myself into feeling is love,
and I think that’s why my version of the quote fits me much better:

“Please, don’t be in love with me.”