she wished to be an enigma
a brilliant universe against the gray of everything else in the world.
she wanted to be the person people want to know,
she wanted to be the mystery that would only be solved by one.
she wanted to be the rarest beauty of the planet.
but instead she got stuck.
stuck with nothing to shine,
stuck with herself.
she couldn’t figure out how to illuminate herself,
so she faded.
slowly and slowly giving up on everything she dreamed of.
until she was just another piece in their gray background.
tired of fighting to be seen by them.*
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he watched her from the moment he saw her,
he thought she was the most beautiful being of the whole of existence.
he was drawn to her,
no matter what she did or where she went.
he wanted to know her,
he wanted to solve her mystery.
but he was scared he wasn’t enough.
he was scared that he was too gray
to be intertwined with her bursts of color.
and as she faded,
so did he.
till his was merely a spec,
of nothing.
tired of fighting himself to be seen by her.