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Kelly Jun 2021
The hardest thing for us
And what brought my struggle to ease
Was the devastating realization
That I cannot love you

into loving me
you will never choose me
Kelly Jun 2021
I'll buy you expensive dinners
if you will come to town to see me
2018
Kelly Jun 2021
reach for my chest again
and say we're "just friends"
is there always an ulterior motive?
Kelly Jun 2021
do you remember
holding me here?
do you remember pressing your face into my neck
and slipping your hands around my waist
Laughing in the face
of fear
My parents on the other side of the mirror

Unbeknownst to not just them
but the world beyond Us
Outside the reach of our fingertips
That grazed only the skin of each other

Do you remember holding me here
Laughing into my ear
and promising much more than our barren soil has reaped?

Do you remember holding me here
with no intention to leave?
how novel.
Kelly Jun 2021
Hills are climbed for coasting
Trudging the upward *****
crunching your breath
legs burning and aching
pressing the pedals to the pavement
for the thrill of the drop

but darkness can hide in overactivity
insufficiency
inadequacy

and after the climb
I find myself pumping the gears
desperate to catch traction on the fall
to keep pushing
when all the wind wants me to do
is

    release.
stop pedaling
Kelly Jun 2021
I'm sorry I didn't
Come through again
I'm sorry under my breath
faced away from you

Curt and swift reply
A jaded kiss
wondering why I have to be like this
Kelly Jun 2021
Silent screams from the rooftop
as the night ended in a bit of an anti
******
Rounded out by your hurry

but never discoura-ging

I watched each defined crystal line bring forth from the depths of the lead in our chests
a divine struggle

of life and highs

Cliche though it may sound
the round
-ness of your face
with your hair at my chin brought me exactly what I was looking for

By giving me nothing that I was looking for

Ink stands forever in skin
And I still think you deserve that

Your words will spring forth from my lips
And I still think you deserve that

But the ethereal place that I cinch at my waist will leave empty a canister once filled by your name

Though you did not leave of shame.

Just like the encounters of those in my art
your shaded brown eyes brought the start
Of me

Spurred by the Heart
of you

And in that, we will share, although you were somebody that I never knew

And I, somebody you will never think of

A saunter in the dark, strange conversational
spark;

Silent screams from the rooftops
and the fire

                   Restarts.
for me.
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