your eyes look like sunset today

pouring my energy
into something
someone
who doesn’t give it back
a losing game
but i can’t seem to learn that

and when you said
laughter is like a foreign language
i imagined that i was
teaching you how to
speak it

i can’t stop thinking
about how happy you looked
sitting in yellow deli
eating a veggie burger

the way you looked at me
from across the table
and give me that smirk you have

do i cross your mind?

i cuddled you all night
and all day

my sweatshirt smells like you now

i’m the type of person
who adds too much tape when wrapping presents
because i’m scared of them opening up
maybe that’s a little representative of myself

the mess of her hair
was never meant to be contained
it was meant to go free
without limits
don’t tell her to fix her hair
when it was never meant to be tamed