it’s odd
that she cares so much
about the oxford comma

when the love of her life
isn’t hers
to love

i’ll follow her around
breathing in
every ounce of you
in her lungs

getting high
off of secondhand love

she didn’t like playing victim

but she couldn’t help
but notice that
love always seemed
to make itself known
in her life

without ever making itself
hers

~

i know you
love me
i just wish you knew
how to

you’ve made me feel seen
in every sense of the word

but tonight
i just wanted you to see me
in the most literal one

he told me there’s not
one unfaithful bone
in his body

which *****

i really just needed the one

his voice carried
from the living room
through her closed
bedroom door

she was used to hearing his voice
reverberating throughout
the walls of her mind,
but never throughout the walls
of her home

she couldn’t help herself

because this time it was different

this time she wasn’t alone with
her thoughts of him

she was alone with him

and with the knowledge
that at any moment
he could walk in to see
her fingers dancing between her legs
to the sound of his voice