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I wonder what songs you play while alone in your car I wonder how you smell doused in your favorite cologne I wonder if you play an instrument - piano, drums, maybe even guitar Curse my inability to spend my days learning you, it’s tearing me apart Because when I look at you, I see all I’d ever dreamed Being with you would cure my wretched heart I’d try every potion and spell, to make you see That being with me would unlock a world beyond your wildest dreams Then again, I hardly know you and you don’t know me Why am I searching for love so far beyond my reach? The perfect boy, a dazzling Don Juan reincarnate I’m a lost puppy, waiting and waiting, holding on to people like a leech. The perfect boy, does such a boy even exist? I’ve been searching for years, it always backfires on me Is it a mere fantasy, a myth, or a wish I can’t resist? Maybe I’m the fool, for believing you’d ever choose me Because while I wonder the qualities that make you you, she knows everything I could ever ponder and more And maybe that’s the cruelest part of all - she’s living the dream I wanted to be Perhaps I was never searching for you at all - only someone to fit the shape of my daydreams And every time reality reached for me, I tore apart at the seams.
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7d ago
May 27, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC
The Perfect Boy
I wonder what songs you play while alone in your car I wonder how you smell doused in your favorite cologne I wonder if you play an instrument - piano, drums, maybe even guitar Curse my inability to spend my days learning you, it’s tearing me apart Because when I look at you, I see all I’d ever dreamed Being with you would cure my wretched heart I’d try every potion and spell, to make you see That being with me would unlock a world beyond your wildest dreams Then again, I hardly know you and you don’t know me Why am I searching for love so far beyond my reach? The perfect boy, a dazzling Don Juan reincarnate I’m a lost puppy, waiting and waiting, holding on to people like a leech. The perfect boy, does such a boy even exist? I’ve been searching for years, it always backfires on me Is it a mere fantasy, a myth, or a wish I can’t resist? Maybe I’m the fool, for believing you’d ever choose me Because while I wonder the qualities that make you you, she knows everything I could ever ponder and more And maybe that’s the cruelest part of all - she’s living the dream I wanted to be Perhaps I was never searching for you at all - only someone to fit the shape of my daydreams And every time reality reached for me, I tore apart at the seams.
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17/Gender Fluid/Holland MI
7d ago
May 27, 2026 at 10:59 PM UTC
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