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What I Wrote About You Three Weeks Ago
And what I said the week after that
Three weeks ago I wrote
about how “perfect” is so subjective and vague and impossible and stupid and how you are precisely it in so many ways.
and the week after that I said I don’t think I can do this anymore.
My Uncle Mike created a new tagline for Chili’s that goes
“You’re gonna hate the way you feel. I guarantee it.”
and I think it applies here too.
Maybe you’re thinking
When you’re alone in your bed?
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head
and I’m thinking the same thing.
I am a person who doesn’t believe in destiny and also the person who wrote that
You are fire flower paper blood and I am honey coffee water sun.
Watch witches stir us in a cauldron and fulfill our prophecy as inevitable as time.
And I say I don’t believe in soulmates but I also wrote about how
I’m wandering through the desert carrying the mirage of a mirror and you’re the only one…