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i can list every nickname
you've ever called me as if
they were members of my family and i
can recall every time you’ve ever
sang in my ear during class. i know
how many times we’ve snuck away from our friends --

not because of any particular reason,
your heart just ached, longed
for that familiar sense of me.

or at least, i hope.

because you seem to feel the skin of
every other girl and you seem
to always be able to keep on
a conversation with them,
it's just impossible to feel anything towards
me and impossible to not
make me feel
something. anything at all
and everything at once.

or maybe you just don't know
what
to feel towards me, maybe your
mind is as much of a jigsaw
puzzle as mine is and all
you’re doing is trying to piece it
all back together.

i just wish we were able to help each other.

you told me thursday on the train
that you wanted to be normal.
that you thought he was perfect
and you were anything but.

but darling you continually fail
to see that in my eyes you are
everything and perfect is just a side effect of living.

you said that you don't feel
quite whole. that your mind isn't
as it should be and that something,
the part everyone but you has,
is missing.
or disfunction or asleep or
just ignoring your pleas to be happy.
you said you felt alone.

but, even though i hate to say it,

Paul Valery one said,
"poems are never finished --
just abandoned."

and i think it's that way with you, too.
school was canceled today so i thought i'd write the longest poem i've even written.
© 2014 - 2024 ghearradh
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cality's avatar
"but darling you continually fail
to see that in my eyes you are 
everything and perfect is just a side effect of living.
"

That's my favourite stanza. :love: