the way I love you

Is it so selfish
to demand you admit that I've
got a friend, many friends who
are brilliant, eloquent,
unashamed
to rip open their shirts,
plunge hands into hearts
and say,
Come
with
me
to the place
we belong?

Am I really so vain
to want you
to go your own way
if you cannot go mine?

They were wrong,
we're all wrong
who sing this song.
To be loved by somebody
you do know,
you must
know what it's like
to do the loving.