a great what if

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Ugly face

Great music taste

Eyes of glittering gold

But hands to cold

He told me he didn’t like to hold them.

With eyes that looked through my innocence

I thought I saw caring, and love but it was an act

His eyes played this game to many times

That his mouth knew all the lines to make his face look like my future

Like looking into a magic mirror I imagined Sunday mornings him

Looking at me the same way, or on weekdays, game days, hard days, half days, lazy days

On every day he loved the way I looked he loved the way he felt with me.

But you know what; he doesn’t look at me the same.

And I can’t stand to be in the same room

Because he follows her around like shadows chases her

Like how each wave chases the other and I follow him…

But no one follows me the way he used to and it kills me

Claws at my heart leaving it wounded every time

I avoid almost every day I have to see him

I avoid the lunch room and I wait a little later

Between classes because even in a crowed

Of all 1000 people in this damn school my eyes are a magnet to yours

But for some reason you think we are the same charge

And together we repeal which is why you look away.

You don’t look at me the same.

And I hate that I hate avoiding you. Because I so long to see you

I hope your eyes light up the same

And they look at me like that perfect night

Where we sat in your car behind work

And you just looked at me. Fireworks went off

And im not being cliché there were literal fireworks

 It was a fourth of July town celebration

And I sat there in your car.

And you played me like the radio

That so sweetly and softly played a song I thought would be our song

You know like in the movies where they have their first kiss

 And everything is perfect

Well its not.

I want to scream and kick and kiss and love you every time I see you

And you think the same about someone else

And im sure you’re tough to handle this

And the other day I saw you

I couldn’t handle it tears spilled out and I left the room

You came over to me

Once I was back and looking at me making my eyes sting.

You asked me if I was crying…

And I said no. because I wasn’t crying

I was hurting I was breaking down

I was letting the voices that were held in my ribcage

Besides my heart sing their unspoken song

And you didn’t believe me

How can I tell you what was wrong?

How could I look you in the face?

With your friendly caring eyes and realize

It’s not what I saw before. Or realize it’s exactly what I saw before.

Just friends. Our three days

Where I admitted to you how I had a crush on you

And you humiliated me three days later. I lied. I did want to be with you.

And no ‘what if’ hangs in my head like you

What if we kissed that night?

What If my phone died earlier so we weren’t interrupted?

What if you never met me……?

And that one hurts the hardest

That one makes the pit in my stomach

Stretch like a trampoline only to repeal back

Into its own little small circle and it looks strong but its not.

Everything about you is amazing to me.

But nothing is amazing about me to you….

You…you said to me that night

You wanted to kiss me

Then why didn’t you?

Why did you question me?

You know. I’d say you were my favorite song.

And I yours. You are the song to me that never gets old,

And im the one that comes on the radio to often for you to listen to it anymore.

So you change the channel.

But I must stop myself from singing along.

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