A Piece of my Heart

Why does love have to be this way?

Why does it have to hurt when it used to fill me with incomparable joy?
Why does it have to be different now? 
We all know that "we can still be friends" is just a formality, it never really lasts. 
Maybe you'll be friends for a week or two,
But slowly you'll start to fall away from each other.
You realize that you don't know how to be "just friends" anymore.
No matter how strong your friendship was before.
But you know him too well to just let a friendship like that go to waste. 
Yet it does. Every. Single. Time.
You let it happen over and over again, 
Saying "it will be different this time,"
How many times will you say that?
How many times will you let this happen?
Eventually you'll start thinking, maybe its me?
Maybe these relationships don't last because of who I am.
That's the only factor that is the same each time, 
Not the boy, there's always a different one of them.
It's me..
It's all me.
Not you.
Me.
Why me?
I guess it's because love is accepting, forgiving, and patience. 
Not the lousy excuse for love you gave me.