what it feels like
1.
i don’t know shit.
i wish i could quit bothering you for 24 hours - i wish you’d stop encouraging me
for 24 fucking hours i wish you’d stop
just stop !!
but - i want to shake you by the shoulders and make you understand
you are the reason
you are the fucking reason
you don’t understand you don’t understand you don’t understand you don’t understand you don’t
you told me it didn’t matter if my intentions were pure and that kinda fucking scared me
because you gave me permission
and then you became my intentions and that wasn’t supposed to happen
in fact none of this was supposed to happen
in fact
sometimes i wish i’d never met you
and you still don’t understand you don’t. understand you don’t understand
you won’t maybe you can’t
i think maybe i think maybe
i would do anything for you i’ve never done anything right
2.
you’ve said you will die at twenty-five and i have to think of a way to say i love you.
i’ve only got seven years left (i will miss you)
maybe i won’t miss anything
let me be the coin under your pillow and i will go with you -
you know you won’t go to heaven
(i don’t care)
i get to look at you the same way again -
when you see me staring and you raise your eyebrows at me -
maybe in hell an anxiety that routine will become a relief
maybe i won’t miss anything
let me forget about you please please please die after i’ve forgotten
or let me die first
3.
but what does it fucking matter !!!!!!!!!!!
what do you care anyway! with your your stupid fucking smirk
you take such great care not to get involved
well is it working? is it working? test 1 2 3
fuck you.
FUCK YOU!
i wish i could say it and mean it fuck
i wish i could say
4.
i love you
5.
i love you.
i love you in a way i was never taught to articulate
i love you in a way i was never allowed to articulate.
i love you and i can’t even meet your eyes.
i love you and i can’t come up with some profound way to say it but you have to believe me,
i love you like i’ve loved the rest of the world
i love you like i try to love living
i love you and it condemns me.
6.
and you make it feel so temporary.
honestly i should be worried about dying but i worry about you, and that’s, well,
that’s fucking unfair
i mean, what’s the point of dying
nobody cares about our doomed fucking love story
but i would like to live long enough to tell the tragic ending i suppose
nothing lasts forever
well maybe you will, dipshit !
can i tell your story without you?
i could ask this and you would say there is no story to be told
but again you’re mistaken. there is always a story and even so for YOU to be meaningless, for YOU to lack impact, for YOU to have no effect on the world,
maybe i see you in a different shade but that’s fucking ridiculous.
YOU’RE fucking ridiculous, i can’t believe you.
dumbass. i love you.
7.
i know you don’t get it but, like,
let me know i guess.