Artificial Love

My ramblings on things people may mistakenly interpret as love...(lust,etc.)

To be in love must be divine.

There’s more to look forward to.

less subject matter in a relationship in high school than

A high school research paper, unquestioned answers and crammed notes, scribbles etched in the margins, frustration for the minutes lost and stress gained in this

“Wonderful”,

“Glorious”

“Nectar”

of temptation.

It may transform into a bitter sweet concoction stuck to the roof of our mouth.

Not candy

Oh no

How can the pleasure of a sticky burst of sweet syrupy…

Love

Compare.

Elaborate on the choices we’re given on never falling for the a*****e

Giving you those sensual eyes

Full of the promise of a future short-lived.

I’m afraid there are only so many kind and ignorant men

Left to be passed around.

Am I being paradoxical in the message that we must

Love?

Those tender gazes of sympathy, amusement, frustration and pity melded into liquid gold

purified into frustrated tears but transformed into swollen lips, tousled hair, and wild eyes.

What are we to do?

Stay in this day and age

Forever 21

Where excitement and love is substituted for water-proof mascara, eyeliner, globs of beeswax and peppermint molded into a cylindrical tube inserted on our lips.

Every imperfection hindered for the sake of an unspoken opinion in a crowded bus but exemplified in the gazes of the opposite sex, or better yet spoken at the discretion of our feelings.

Oh joy.

Let me get in line for that

I don’t know why love isn’t color-blind, caked makeup blind, sexual orientation blind.

Just blind

Everything metaphysical, spiritual must be proven

Diminishing its luster.

Damn that store is infiltrating on the thoughts of many today.

I’m pretty sure no one looked at the quote from the bible

Written at the very bottom of every bag.

Forever 21 is their focus.

That one word

And one number