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By Jade Brisset January 16, 2019

Another Untitled Love Poem About You

Illustrated by Angelo-Antonio Carocci-Jaimes

 

I have a bad habit of watering dead plants

Maybe that’s why I pour myself into others

The way turbulent waterfalls flow into controlling rivers

Becoming one half of a silent killer

 

It started with the son they never had,

The golden boy with the powder blue eyes

“Too good for you” said mom

“He’s good for you” told lies

 

He wouldn’t hurt a fly

But apparently, I am no insect

What an incomparable high

Four years of aching infatuation, nevertheless zero regret

 

The doubled-edged sword of unrequited love

Cuts deeper than the scissors you keep under your pillow

And those sugar-coated lies we sing to mourning doves

Are told too often to soften their final blow

 

Safe from the glitching sunrays of false hopes

Hiding under the bed with orphaned socks and childhood monsters

All of us shaking, standing our ground until we get coaxed

I can still remember the trance that is being mesmerized by imposters

 

Still he was the gentlest, loudest soul

Cursed with the wrath of a widowed king

He strides out as a whole

While my battered heart beats in the boxing ring

 

Seeking comfort in sleepless nights and stab wounds

The illusion of romance disguised as abusive familiarity

Only to find yourself caught in the tightening ropes of abandonment

Ah, to be a young and in love

About the author

Jade Brisset is a 2nd Year Psychology Student.

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