Love Games

let's make a documentary instead!

Life isn’t like being backstage where

we can pull back the thick red curtains and scream

at the actors for not playing their parts well.

It’s not like a rehearsal where everything is predestined,

the pieces falling together seamlessly into place.

We’re never really the ones seating at the director’s chair

telling whose turn it is to step into focus and whose turn it is to

             fade into black.

It’s more like a film where the ending is unpredictable,

where the boy doesn’t get the girl and the girl turns out to be

a hundred year-old werewolf with fresh blood on her hybrid hands.

I told you already, I don’t want to do shit with any romance bull.

We both know it’s tragedy we want, because our hearts are torn up

and a cheesy sweet piece of eye candy

ain’t gonna heal any of those uneven parts.