Okay, we get it
I love you,
Now please come back into my life
As we’d expect you to
In a romantic comedy,
Or happy-ending novel too,
Because this realization is killing me
One breath at a time.

I'd rather live my life
Trying to love and losing
Than never trying at all.

I went to college
in search of success
and found heartbreak;
In search of full pockets
filled heartache;
In search of change
faced namesake.

I look at old photographs,
Our sun-kissed skin glowing
In the beginning of our final year in schooling,
Soon to turn pale-sour,
As sunshine gave way
To late fall gusts of leaves
And with imminent winter approaching,
I missed your sunburnt touch.

There was only one girl
In the world who understood
All I wanted for my 22nd birthday

Was a typewriter,
To help me understand the world
Of the written word.
And still, with months away
I want that gift
If only to type her name,
“Juliette, Juliette
Why did you never return?”

I spend all day dreaming
About a love I'll never find
If my head is stuck up in the clouds
But it's so much nicer up there
Than down here on the ground
Where expectations are lower
Than I'm ready to hand out.

I'm not a poet,
Barely even a writer,
Just someone who reads too much
And tries to figure out
How words and rhymes
Work together like puzzle pieces
In the syntax of life.