Scintilla

Captivated + Cover CE

[sometimes, a relationship can only go so far]

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he was my everything, my light in the dark

for each of my problems, he would hark.

my flaws were nothing, simple details that didn't matter

and the butterflies i had for him would never scatter.

but the smiles he had, they were not for me

and the only times i had ever seen him were through a screen.

i drowned in his words, the ones he wrote

beautiful words, containing the crashing of feelings, in his poems and notes;

the ones he shared with the [online] world but never to her.

and i'd often find myself trying to read them, but mostly they were only a blur

because of the tears in my eyes

and in his [for her] the stars so much like the sky.

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In which a girl falls in love with a boy she meets online. He is her world, but she is simply a screen to him.

Cover contest status: win; 1st place