I'm Up 10-2 (Ghazal)

I liked her, but I didn’t know if she liked me too,

So afraid of hearing her heart, I just threw up the deuce.

I tried telling myself on a scale of 1-10 she was nothing but a two,

but I couldn’t really front because in my heart she was the deuce.

Batman and Robin or hamburger and french fries, is what I’d compare us to,

But I’m playing Alfred, a spoon to a burger two less than deuce.

We are nothing without love but to be in it it takes two,

But people treat it like tennis and just want to be up by deuce.

I like her and I hope she likes me too

Even if she don’t I’ll always be the number right before deuce.