i will always like you
even when you're gone from these buildings
i will always be looking for a trace of you
a familiar scent
or a name carved out in a desk.

i will listen to these songs
and think of you.

when summer comes,
i will call your sister, ask how you two are doing
because i will be too scared to ask you myself
and when summer passes
i will still look for your name somewhere on a class list.

i will not forget you.
even when i find someone new
you will always lurk in the back of my mind
reminding me that it could've been you
if i had said the right words.

you will always be a missed opportunity.
a poem i regret throwing away,
words that i regret not getting a hold of
letting them slip from my lips and disappear
instead of dancing on paper

i will always dream about you.
even when we will never meet again,
i will still think of a scenario
where i find you alone on a park bench
and you see me.
or one where i will hold your hand in your apartment
wishing the moment wouldn't end yet.

i'm always gonna like you,
i don't know how not to.