Why, Love?

I think you're scared
It's so strange
So alien
So
Unnatural
That you weren't the author
The source of this story
You weren't
The star of the show
You were
The supporting actress
The sideline girl
The spectator
Not the performer
The shock that someone
Loves you
And you didn't love them first
Is too much to handle
To comprehend
"What did she say?"
You whisper
I can see you
Read your lips
As they run to you, to speak the news
I'm right here
Ask me yourself
Yes
You are scared
And scared to say so