What I Held Back

I took away the best of me

And put it on a shelf

The parts I thought might show

All the things I knew

Just might send you running

I lost those hidden parts

So that you'd stay with me

They fell behind somewhere

Dropped along a path or sidewalk

Rolled under a couch

Or lost behind a dresser

In a bedroom we passed through

I don't know how to find them

Since they vanished into air

And now that dreaded ending

That I feared has come at last

You already took off running

Even without the dreaded parts

I guess what happened was

When I took away the best

I forgot to hide the worst

So that’s what you got

As I tried to mold myself

Into a shape

That could fit into you

Now I’m here

With mangled bits of worst

Longing to find a scrap

Of the best that I held back