I wanted you to mean all those pretty words you sang to me
I wanted you to need all those beautiful things you asked of me
I wanted you to see our unhealthy dynamic and love us anyway
How long I waited for a call that will never come
When you would say it all for real
When we could simply be alone together
I believed all those pretty words that I had heard a million times before
That I had said and not meant to a million other lovers across the universe
I don’t want to lie anymore but I don’t have you to tell the truth to
How many truths I held in just to whisper in your ear
If only you had meant all those pretty words you sang to me
Poetry