Given Name

You said this would work,
and I believed you,
because I was taught that doubt was weak,
and lazy,
and literally ridiculous,

but there were cotton balls of pessimism in here,
things wafting around a bit,
like we could blow on them,
like birthday candles,

and the whole idea would fall apart,

and maybe that was true,
but all it said was that we were weak,
and pushovers,
and I knew you were okay with it,

which is why this would never have worked,
never,
not even for an evening