May 2019
I’m an awkward guy
I know it
But when I tell you that I love you
It feels so mundane, cliche
Everyone says that
Everyone uses that word
It can’t possibly mean all of the things that I feel inside
So when I say it
I say it in a cutesy voice
Because inside
My heart is screaming a million things at once
And the closest translation
The only translation available
Is
I love you.
I know it
But when I tell you that I love you
It feels so mundane, cliche
Everyone says that
Everyone uses that word
It can’t possibly mean all of the things that I feel inside
So when I say it
I say it in a cutesy voice
Because inside
My heart is screaming a million things at once
And the closest translation
The only translation available
Is
I love you.
I’ve been writing my own poetry for years, and I’ve never been brave enough to share it with my wife. I wrote this one day and stashed it with all of my other poems, hidden in plain sight in our house. Maybe she’ll find it by accident someday, or maybe she already has.
