Consistently

We know this statement to be true that consistency is key
So why is it don’t you see the effort that your love brings out in me?

These things I want to do
These few tasks that are completed 
Your lack of appreciation and silent disrespect makes me feel quite heated 

Don’t want to be defeated on this battlefield of love
Look, more shrapnel and literary clichés 
raining down from above
I’ll try and try again to make peace as gentle as a baby dove 

Consistent in messing up 
Tumbled about and never once considered the other stuff
that might have been getting in the way
“I’ll try once more again”
was all I had left to say

But if there really is effort in the doing
the mistakes, the follies and the errors 
Why is it that these acts fill me with such terror?

Don’t want to be known as almost
Don’t want to be seen as just alright
I want to be regarded as precious in your sight
Steady as a warrior in the thick of the fight

Consistently unsure of what I should do
Consistently unsure of how to step around your changing moods
Consistently sure that I’d do it all again
and know that in this trying, this love will never bend