216.
I thought it was a blessing to just exist by your side.
But in reality.
It was a curse I would spend the rest of my life undoing.
217.
We were just two people who didn't know how to stay strangers.
218.
I don't understand why I can't take my eyes off of you.
I've told myself 100 times over again to stop.
To stop searching for your wondering eyes.
For the chance to meet them for a split second.
You weren't anything special. Nothing to captivate you and take you in like an alluring drug.
Nothing that made people stop and stare.
At least that's what I want to believe.
But as long as I'm looking at you, you'll always be special.
To me since I can't understand why I can't take my eyes off of you.
~E, apparently.
219.
We didn't talk this week.
Or the last.
Or the one before.
I wish your stares and unsaid words told me everything.
Everything you haven't said out loud.
I wish your silence didn't bother me.
I wish you told the words that you're trying to say to me through the stares and unsaid words.
I wish you said them.
I wish you did a lot of things.
So it feels right to be stuck on you like this.
~E, I wish our silence killed you like it did me.
220.
I still have hope that we'll go back to how we used to be.
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sunsets after dark. | poetry collection
Poetryfor the ones that were the sunshine for one wrong person then became the midnight rain for everyone else. an collection of poetry and short stories. ‼️TW‼️ contains hard topics including a mention of SA & SH. Amongst other things. I am a poet I wr...
