He doesn't actually like me the way he should He's messing with fool's gold, not knowing His golden love is fake
No, why should he When he developed a crush from reading my words Over the summer when I wasn't there While he liked her for the ones she spoke With a smile thrown across the lunch table?
You built a bridge out of straws, lover boy And maybe one day it'll come crashing down With me standing among the rubble saying "I told you so, now **** it up" And then you would realize you built a stone bridge For her, not for me
But until then, I'm happy with the metal's shine As long as you don't mind the pyrite So that one day you can find the real gold The one that lets you like me the way you should
I need to work out a few kinks on this, but it fits into the "insecurity" theme because I wrote about something that scares me in a tone of voice that doesn't imply fear. I am terrified of anything from this poem actually being true, so rereading this confident piece makes me really insecure.