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Why I'm Single

Finding a lover is effortless

for some people.

They only want a few things:

Someone attractive, kind,

funny or rich.

 

But

I desire

something so much deeper.

 

I want

 

an intelligent mind

that wakes up thoughts in me

I didn't realize were hibernating.

 

I want

 

to converse, analyze and debate

without being conscious of

the sun rising and falling

between our words.

 

I want

 

to make a witty remark

at a coffee shop

so he can reply sarcastically

just for me to jab back immediately

and for him to comeback back playfully

until we're both laughing

stomachs shaking

spit flying

the whole store staring

and we leave

without coffee

 

I want

 

our hands to stitch together

perfectly

like two lost puzzle pieces;

one found under a couch cushion

one found inside a junk drawer.

The rest of the puzzle has

already been thrown away

but

these two pieces remain

and they fit.

 

I want

 

to fall in love together

then together fall in love with

art, museums, songs, poems

T.V shows, radio jingles,

greek food, backroads,

our mutual hatred for pop culture,

doing the dishes (as long as he washes and I dry)

wrong turns, piled up laundry, life.

Just fall in love with life.

 

I want

 

to hurt with him

 

I want

 

to save the world with him

 

I want

 

to meet, see, understand

and experience all that is foreign

with him.

 

I think it will only take us meeting

and it'll only be history and happiness from then on.

 

It's just a matter of if a love like that could ever be

and if a love like that could ever be for me.

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Written by
lin-bri
26 / F
Published
Oct 3, 2017
Lines·Words
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