I knew

As you slept on the bus, your hand still tightly gripping mine, the innocence on your face reminds me why I can not stay. 

1am, homeward bound on the motorway, as we pass each orange street light I can't help but feel further away.

Oblivious to my heart breaking, you sleep on.

I don't want to end our dream but it is no longer my reality. I dissolved myself in your simplicity and lost sight of me. 

You are baby blue. anxious. Beautiful.

I am blood orange, stellar at filling silence.

I could keep faking these smiles for my audience but I have hardened cradling your soft heart.

Your eyes slowly open until your are awake. we are closer to home but I couldn't feel further away. 

"get any sleep at all?" you ask

"a little" I lie

you smile wide

tears sting the back of my eyes

"I love you" says Baby Blue.

"I love you too" says Blood Orange,

filling her silence. 

Reviews

[Serendipity Planet]

I can easily relate to your poem , I love the style of the words
The honesty , we do lie sometimes , when we feel love ended but we don't want to admit

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Aww....it's really love hiding.....like unsaid care!!
Loved reading!!