maybe...

you said you want to have
a real relationship
instead of this exchange of facades we now currently share
and
i just wanted to say now, before this all goes down...

you are dear to me.
you are a fantastic friend,
wonderful in many ways.
i hope you will be able to see the wonderful in me
after i peel away these layers

like so many clothes you have peeled away before.

and maybe you can love me
like no one else.

and maybe that love is the love i've been looking for.

maybe.

i just wanted to put that out there, before you hear things from my lips
that can't return to them once they're out.