April Fool

 

“So, how you doing?”

You called me up and asked.

Your voice took me back

To how things were in the past.

My heart began to flutter

With the rise of butterflies;

Thinking back to how

I used to stare into those blue eyes.

You said that you wanted me back

Because you had missed me so,

You apologized for being stupid,

“I should never have let you go”.

A smile crossed my lips

As I listened to your words.

I even begin to hear

The previously unnoticed singing of the birds!

Oh, I knew the day would come

When you’d come back to me!

I knew it would happen,

I just had to wait and see.

Then suddenly my thoughts

Were rudely interrupted

When on the other line

With laughter you erupted.

“April Fool!” you shouted

With unbelievable glee.

“April fool?” I repeated.

“You mean you don’t want me?”

Your laughter turned cruel

At the naivety of my question.

It then changed to disgust

As you contemplated the suggestion.

“When I said I loved you, 

You couldn’t have thought it was true!

No one could ever love

Someone with likes of you.”

To say that my heart had broken

Would be the understatement of the year.

I just kept trying to tell myself

That what you had said, I didn’t hear.

But the realization came at such a speed

That on my breath I began to choke.

I was nothing more than

A stupid April Fools joke!

 

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