Simply

feelings I hid from everyone.

I looked at you across from the table,

cowering beneath your shadow

because it loomed over me like the Eiffel tower.

I admired you, looking so glamorous and just so cool,

with a structure of steel, you radiated strength,

so shiny and it made me want to be like you,

I wanted to be like you,

strong like you- cool, calm, and collected like you

so I stayed in your shadow,

trying all the time to catch up to you.  

but instead I tripped and fell,

and you wee so far ahead

and you were simply not mine

I thought about eating forbidden fruit,

but the juice sifts from sweet to sour

so soon, so sudden, and so I turn away,

but see you from the distance. 

It makes me hunger and envy,

emotions that stir my flesh

Nothing more to do now, but walk away

so  I simply walk away. 

Of course no one will notice the pieces of my heart

in my trail, stained with my tears glistening on the ground

like drops of dew on the grass after a bad storm. 

Each broken piece, dropped, yet cut like strands of hair.

It can no longer be me, it is no longer me, and I am moving on

because in the steel structure is rust like any other building-

and I realize now comparing you to the Eiffel tower was a horrible simile

you maybe special to her, but nothing special to me

because the more I see of you, the more I know

it was simply never meant to be

 

Reviews

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Poignant, heartwenching...to always try to step out of a person's imposing shadow, I only know the feeling too well. This poem brought back all those overwhelming emotions...Brilliant!