I'm not in Love, You're just Lovely

Boys and girls can never be friends.

and you know every word

to every song

that i took from your playlist

laying on your couch where i used to spend the night

i knew you didn't want it there

  because you left to get a glass

when i put my head on your leg

when you sat down again, your leg was out of reach

 

i would have kissed you

in a dizzy drunk frenzy once

i broke your closet doors with your back

tickle fights are never fair

(i just wanted to touch you, just there)

 

i know

                    i frustrate you.

 

spilled on your rug everytime i come over

beer, vodka, tears, water

climbed a ladder to your bed

where i lay all night

connecting freckles on your shoulders

cause you always turn your back on me

i'd like to

slip through the cracks of your indifference-

make you smile but i

                               frustrate you.

 

and i took your music on your couch

so that everyday sounds like you

how is it fair that you

can come into my room

destroy my puzzles, 1,000 pieces all over the floor

i still find them in corners

and you can

throw me off my computer chair

i can barely stand from all the bruises

and you can

break my bed with wanton wanting

but when i

crawl into yours i cannot even make the springs creak?

do i have to get you drunk

just to make you run your tongue

over my teeth                       again?

we are just two rough kids

horsing around

making too much noise

and i'm running out of words-

 

there are only so many ways to say

                                i need you.

      

Reviews

[.ronald.039.]

this is a great sum-up of being young and in love. we can all relate to having that one person in your life who just doesn't get it. your poems are pretty good. i'm a fan.