“Evergreen”

i’d accepted solitude
a chipper demeanor on a tIghtrope

walking outside to look around at lonely faces

who all love somebody else,
when will someone Love me?

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i’ll admit it was begrudging

On my way downtown

another hi how are you
i can laugh about it now

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i had painted my nails a bright color blue
like a faVorite song i’d hate to sing about you
you complimEnted them when you walked in the room

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you take Your time, and i take mine
i wondered how long it’d take for yOu to leave me i showed my old colors while we listened to jazz

i let loose on my grip
you said yoU wanted to see me again

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cliches are my forte

you’re my new favorite person

i don’t need to be saved
i just needed compassion

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now you lift me right up
in an embrace or up two flights of stairs

now i wake up with indentations
from where you held my hand while you dreamed

one day you’ll loosen that little gold ring

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i still find myself
in the night and your eyes
i know that you see through my passive goodbyes

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we’ve swam in the pool
and looked up at the leaves

someday soon we’ll rush past the trees

to someplace that’s warm,

and someplace that’s true

i’d get frostbite and die if it meant kissing you

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i used to turn cold in the wintering months

now i have you as eternal good luck

you’re my endless summer

i’d watch snowflakes fall free

if the eyes i looked into were forever green

you’re my endless lover and my new halloween

and the eyes i look into are forever green

10/25/23