Pint of Contradiction

I like you the way I like my beer
Cold, with care for my liver
A pint of contradiction.
The warmth of your day
warms mine.
A little diversion from
my depression.
You care, and I care about you
You let me share all that made me blue,
but this ends here.
You can’t stand the truth.
“Try me”, let me be the judge and see.
You remind me of a girl I once loved
Mature and young
No idea where it all began.
You’re more of an impression of her
A pattern, complex and obscure.
A representation of what I missed
A pattern I could not tend to, or begin to fix.
I don’t regret what we mixed,
But this is goodbye.
I don’t know the good in it for me
But I’ll forsake thinking,

for the sake of you.