A two-person poem between me and a guy I like. Every first line is me, every second line is him.
(2013)
This is not about the first time we met, but about our first real conversation, in the science lab. This is what I thought he was thinking...
Save me, I’ll be waiting for you to show up at my door,
Wyatt, I did so many things so you’d noti… I wore clothes I didn’t like, stuff I wouldn’t wear otherwise, but you still never looked over,
So many things you don’t know, like the way this Tightrope Ride burned me out too many times. The way I almost took the Highway To Hell,
You said I’m funny like that, but I know it’s not true, You’re only saying that so I’ll laugh,
His eyes are as blue as a sapphire… But they only sparkle for me. His smile is the sunshine, Sparkling off the waves. His hair is as black
I can’t live without you, you’re the only reason my heart
It’s way too quiet without you her… The words of everyone, they don’t… They don’t seem to notice you’re n… I’m caught, their looks like a tra… You don’t care that I miss you, d…
I wish I’d been there when you ne… I’m not with you now, but I shoul… You thought I was the one you wan… But I ran away because I was haun… You said I was beautiful, I didn’…
Looking at that picture in my yearbook, the one of us, from January, in the science lab,
When can I see you Again? We only meet in the Hallways And outside before or after
He sat down next to me, I saw Spa… I knew then that Everything Has… Before, I was Invisible around hi… But Change has come, and he’s Min… I ended up in a State Of Grace.
She’s alone, none of her friends k… She cries tears of blood when she’… She hides her feelings, sometimes… And she keeps it in when she’s mad… No one else knows what she’s been…
My first crush moved away, the summer before third grade, but I didn’t cry then. My parents beat me up,
They said, broken wings, shattered dreams, fractured heart. I said,
They say you can’t fight fire with… but I would. Because my flame would rise higher than yours could. Because you would be damned, conde…