I wrote you a text message
But I didn't hit send.
I started to call you
but instead
i hit end.
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Every time I didn't,
I almost did.
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all your hair pulled into the little knot on top your head caught my eye, no doubt.
Or maybe, it had something to do with the way your bottom lip pouts.
Or how, thanks to those thick glasses the oceans of your eyes are magnified.
God only knew there'd be a tsunami when you cried.
you always looked as if you were about to cry.
I hope there's a storm named after you.
I'll listen for your name on the weather, news and the radio.
Because I know I'll never see it flash across my phone.
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You never showed up that night.
Why'd you leave me alone?
I don't hate you.
Please, don't think that.
It just still hurts,
the way you
knocked me
off of my
throne
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I don't hate you, You were a great story.
But every book ends.
Try to believe me, I really do want to read it again and again.
But every library book has to be returned.
or there's a large fee and my pockets are burned.
you see the world is our library.
and I only borrowed your story.
I have to return you now back to your shelf.
for you to collect dust and reflect on yourself.
one day someone will show more love than I did when they turn your pages.
And they will release all your unpublished chapters from their cages.
all in different writing and editing stages.
and all written in braile because love is blind.
Our Story Is Overdue.
I can't pay the fine.
I have to
return
you.
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© copyrighted Nicole Ann Osborn

Maybe I just want you to be with me
everyday
Maybe I just want your friends to
stay away
Maybe I just want them not to
stare
Maybe they give me feelings I could not
bear
Maybe I do not like it when they look at
us
Like they are making sounds in their
heads
Like they are concluding where this relationship
would end
Maybe that part of me will never be
mended
I do not like the way they judge
The way they assume things
The way they are uncertain of how strong our love is