I asked the girl with the pretty smile for a pen the other day in class.
She laughed as she pulled out one black.
And one blue.
Then she switched the tops of the two,
Making mine blue-black and hers black-blue.
I watched her as the teacher yapped,
Meticulously pulling apart and reconstructing them with delicate ease.
She smiled as she gave it to me,
Gently dropping it in my hand and turning her back to class.
You could have it,
She whispered to me.
We matched, her black-blue pen and my blue-black,
I gave her a pencil in place of what I took from her,
She shook her head,
Telling me to keep my pencil and her black-blue pen.
I wanted to give her more, but,
I wasn’t ready to give up the red-black pen just yet.
I fear I’ve lost more than just the blue to my black pen.
Her doe eyes no longer meet mine after she found my red-black pen.
Her laughter is now silent,
And her notes are now in pencil.
I haven’t seen her black-blue pen when I use my blue-black every now, then, and again.
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM UTC
I asked the girl with the pretty smile for a pen the other day in class.
She laughed as she pulled out one black.
And one blue.
Then she switched the tops of the two,
Making mine blue-black and hers black-blue.
I watched her as the teacher yapped,
Meticulously pulling apart and reconstructing them with delicate ease.
She smiled as she gave it to me,
Gently dropping it in my hand and turning her back to class.
You could have it,
She whispered to me.
We matched, her black-blue pen and my blue-black,
I gave her a pencil in place of what I took from her,
She shook her head,
Telling me to keep my pencil and her black-blue pen.
I wanted to give her more, but,
I wasn’t ready to give up the red-black pen just yet.
I fear I’ve lost more than just the blue to my black pen.
Her doe eyes no longer meet mine after she found my red-black pen.
Her laughter is now silent,
And her notes are now in pencil.
I haven’t seen her black-blue pen when I use my blue-black every now, then, and again.
A continuation of a Blue-Black Pen, a poem I wrote a while back