Stay and Mean It

I mean it.
Your careful speech, your steady tone,
Your fingers shaking on the glass.
You call it kindness when you leave; I call it fear in better clothes,
One breath, one truth.
I can take it.
Can you?
Stay.
I mean it.
Say you still feel it.
I can take a broken heart; I can't keep rehearsing one.
Stay.
I mean it.
I turn the music off and away.