when i was younger
i used to see couples in films
and the man would win the teddybear
and the woman’s heart would ache
i wish you could make mine ache that way
when i met you
you sold me a different kind of pain
and of course i was conditioned to buy it
i wish the default was different though
the world is spinning on the same narrative
you weren’t even that significant
i’d hardly see you
i don’t even think you were there for me
you were in my thoughts more than
physically
i never really liked your behaviour
treatment like a plague doctor
but my options had limits
and i guess you looked nice
under asteroid lights
do you know that i still wear your coat
im wearing out the black you left
in and around me
it’s not like you destroyed my heart -
just made it ache a little
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Author:
tyler wyatt (Pseudonym) (
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Comments2
I really like how this is written, and I can definitely relate. " i guess you looked nice
under asteroid lights" is a really good line
I read your poem 'free therapy' as the first of yours that i had seen. Impressed, i decided to see some more of your stuff. You are an exceptional poet. I'm a nobody but really like your stuff.
This one tells a love story in a delightfully detached air as if written with a wry smile in reminiscence.
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