amanda

amanda Sep 2020

sometime past sundown

sometime past sundown
i want you
to want me
too

amanda Sep 2020

with or without

is it dramatic to say
that i’d rather
one perfect year
alive with you
than sixty more
without?

i’m going to die someday

i’d rather it be at 25
having known the taste of you
than at 85 without

amanda Sep 2020

some kind of magic

it was never going to be fair
that his brand of magic
is just intangible enough
to entrance me

and just tangible enough
to make her
his sidekick

amanda Sep 2020

priorities of a poet

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

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

amanda Sep 2020

secondhand love

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

getting high
off of secondhand love

to courtney
ryan
and amanda

amanda Sep 2020

victim of 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

~

amanda Sep 2020

how to

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