Elucidating Questions

Would it be too much to ask to have you stay?

Someone who would fight to be somewhere close.

When the book closed and the pages were finished, could it be something worth coming for?

Sleepless nights and waiting. The darker the night the brighter the dawn, they say,

Even when it doesn’t come,

Could I ask you to stay?

Often the thought comes that the reason no one fights is I haven’t been worth fighting for.

Fighting every day to stay, like trying to save my own life.

Don’t know why it’s such a struggle, but I struggle,

Does it mean I can’t ask you to stay?

How much I wish, I wish we could all stay.