Die for you — Summary

I bleed for you, But you don't for me. I cry for you, But you don't for me. I smile for you, But you don't for me. I die for you. You killed me.

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Here, a speaker lays out a lopsided relationship in the plainest terms. Three times they say what they do for someone: bleed, cry, smile. Each time the answer is the same, "But you don't for me." The repetition feels like a tally of grievances, as if the speaker has been counting for a long while and has finally run out of patience.

The last two lines break the pattern. "I die for you" pushes the sacrifice as far as it can go, and then "You killed me" turns it around. The speaker's devotion has not just gone unreturned; it has been destroyed by the person it was meant for. There's a bitter irony in that shift, since dying "for" someone becomes being killed "by" them.

The mood is raw and hurt, with a flat, quiet anger underneath. The short lines and simple words make it sound less like a performance and more like someone finally saying the thing out loud. Whether the death is literal or emotional, the poem suggests it is the loss of the speaker's own self.

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