You Are Not My Lover

I would love to be with you, but I don't love you. When I first heard this sentence, I was fourteen years old and a boy who couldn't smile. I would love to be with you, but I don't love you. When I first said this sentence, I was sixteen years old, a boy who could only smile. You will never be my lover, I told him, because you will never give me any promises. Intention: