Month: May 2019

At some point
Something
I write
Will be
About you

When you look at me
I can see
That you don’t see
My potential to be
Someone more
When I look at you
All those times you
Never knew
I was paying attention
At what you said
And did and then some
That I imagined
Possibilities for you–
If only you bothered
To think beyond shallow
Camaraderie
As the only bond
Between us

I want to go
Swimming in
The deep end
But you won’t
Let me

We can move
To the music like
We’re having fun at a party
But we all know
That we don’t belong here
There is no
Place for us

Thought I could
Carry you with me
Wherever I go
But not everyone
Understands
Or approves

I want it
But don’t know
How to get it

Junk mail on the floor
Unimaginative meals
Eaten at odd hours
Repeat binging
Of tv shows

Comfortable
In my skin
No need to
Tame me
I won’t bite
If you don’t
Back me
Into a corner

You said
You couldn’t
See me
Anymore
Because literally
You can’t–
You need to
Get cataracts surgery

Don’t get
Any closer–
I like you
Right where you’re
Standing

If actions
Prove who
Someone is
And words
Prove who
They want
To be–
What does
That make me?