Poetic Whispers

Unpoetic Love

Tracing lines over your palm

Twisting your beautiful hair around my finger

Leaning as close to you as possible

Begging you to shift your hand another inch

Closer to mine

Closer

A pen in my hand

Tapping at the table

Chewed up cap between my teeth

Brow crinkled in concentration

I am not poetic

I cannot mold my words into beautiful metaphors

To express my love for you

I cannot present you a perfect page of similes comparing you to a storm in July

I cannot write that your lips drip the truths of the world

Or that your touch is the glue that keeps me together when all I want to do is fall apart

I cannot whisper you pretentious lullabies at three a.m.

And I can never fully pour my soul out to you

Because I'm afraid to leave coffee stains on a blank page of a relationship

And the creases will never be fully ironed out if you crumple me

You deserve more

Than the delicate paper

That will dissolve the moment she's dropped

Into a summer puddle

I'm begging you to leave now

Or you'll be caught forever

I'm already so stuck on you

That if I truly believe you could love me

I'll shatter when I'm dropped

Does it scare you when I say I love you

It scares me

I shouldn't be saying such a loaded phrase

It inflates in a small room and smothers us

The elephant in the room

When it's met with dreaded silence

Darling I know I shouldn't be this invested

But how could I not be?

Have you seen yourself?

I want to lay next to you

At that poetic time at night

And whisper the three a.m. truths

Trace circles over your palms

Tamper with your perfect hair

And kiss you

You've sealed your fate

You deserve so much better but now it's too late

I've fallen deep into real love

And suddenly I'm telling everyone that Georgia is my favorite state