I'll Lose You in the Stars

Seven Years Later

Seven years later

I still go back to freshman biology

to give my seat up to you

in a rare moment of unreluctant generosity

to the only girl I almost genuinely hated,

Seven years later

I still go back to freshman biology

to give my seat up to you

and, in a rare moment of civility and the reveal of a youthful smile,

you offer a beautifully vulnerable, "Thank you"

to one of the many girls who almost genuinely hated you,

Seven years later

I still go back to freshman biology

to our first truce

made in the background of an 80s sci-fi film

aching to have been able to pull out my blue plastic chair for you

on the ninth of that May.

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