You look at me with such

distaste, “Poser,” you sneer

head up high passing by.

I don’t dress to impress though

this is just me.

I copy what I think is beautiful

and now it’s all

blended so you can think

what you want.

We talked today

for the first time in weeks

and I’d love to lie

but I fell in love with

your taken heart all over again.

You can’t complain

it’s getting done,

can’t you see how well

you’re doing?

It seems like naught but 

I promise it’s becoming

caught.

It’s sunk in deep, the

stress is here so just pray to

God it’ll leave us be.

We sat stranded

wishing we’d taken a

different way

having no choice but to

wait the road out.

Your dates are seared

into my mind,

locked into my memory

so I spent the day wondering

if mine are in yours.

Tomorrow’s that day

I remember all year long.

Memories upon memories

all stacked up.

Some are bittersweet

some are wonderful

and then there’re
some everything in between.

Whisper in my ear

all those secrets you hid,

all those questions you never asked,

all those messages you didn’t send.
Whisper in my ear
everything you never said.

You tell me

“Don’t smoke love,”

but the truth behind it is

that they’re better for my

health than you are.

I’d like to say

you still make my heart

beat quick and

my stomach flutter

but I always said

that I’d never lie to you
and if I’m perfectly honest

with you then I have to say

the butterflies have left

my heart and the
elephant herd has laid down

to sleep in my stomach.

The time of us

is long since past
and

the time of her
has come so soon.

I’d love to say just how

elated I am
to know you’re happy

but that wouldn’t be entirely

honest.

The truth is

I can feel the fleeting

feelings of the

age old green eyed monster.

Waking up, 

sun shining and

daisies adorning your hair

when I roll over.

Eyes open sleepily,

run my fingers

through your hair

with your breathing

slow steady calm

as you sleep on,
and I can smell the flowers

on them afterwards.

Oh darling,

I can’t say much

but what I can say won’t help you.

Oh darling-

I’m not a nice girl.

Don’t treat me so sweetly

for you’ll just be destroyed

once I walk away.

Oh darling,

don’t say it won’t be so

because that’s what they

all said before it

happened.