Teenage Hooligan: An Original Poetry Chapbook

Lust

October 7th, 2019
15 Years Old

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You don't remember falling in love with me.
You just remember holding my hand and realizing how much it was going to hurt you
when I would have to let it go.

We all know the rules of the universe
The planets revolve around the sun
And the stars burn on their own,
they sometimes even explode
they're a blast of energy and emotion
That just fizzle into stardust.

In your book, you believed you were the sun.
You were the savior
And you admitted to being too hot for the earth and apologizing.
But of course, that was the earth's fault
With it's ozone and all.
After all, it was the first planet you could supply life to.

But there's a strange danger to being the first..
Because, you asked me on a date.
And the next day started calling me your girlfriend.
Boy, I haven't even met you in real life and you're FUNNY
To think that you could go parading around like I'm your property...
Would say current me.
The past me was the earth...
With it's, ya know, ozone layer and the dying and chaos.

3 weeks after dating.
We finally go on a date.
Funny how that works.
We go mini golfing!
And you laugh at how I call it putt putt golf.
I think about what I know about you.
You have that underlying layer
Of the inevitable fact that you're always right.
I wonder if you know about me,
Other then which knife would best get under my skin,
Pick away each individual freckle.
Which blade would be the most shiny to where I can't say no.
No, I will not put on a runway model show for you,
The same I give my mom after a shopping trip at Aerie
No, you cannot have my hand
My arm
My entire being.
And no, you cannot have
Shrek...
Shrek?
You've never watched Shrek?
Here, in my hand
I have the quotes
The donkey voice.

You're fond of them.
Fond of my hand
My arm
My entire being.
You shake the earth
You're a natural disaster
You build the goddamn ruins I study in school.

I kick down the ruins in front of my parents
And then, there, finally
They teach me the meaning of lust.

It's a deadly sin! They exclaim.
And yeah, it is.
You have a great way of killing spirits.

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