Maybe, or Maybe

You know,
I am my own person
my own soul
my own being
in this world I call
my own.

Maybe
I shouldn't take it so personally
that someone couldn't handle
all that I am.

Or maybe
I should take it that personally
that someone didn't keep his word
and conveniently chalked it up as
"the end will justify the pain" and
"you are better off without me".

(But if one cannot even keep a
commitment,
then, what's the point in having
any relationship?)

Maybe
it's better to let it all be nothing,
to take neither sides.

Or maybe
you can't afford to

teeter
in
the
middle
;

you've got to take a stand in life
somehow.