The Poetry Marathon

Three Dots,
Then nothing.
I wait for days
But no word.
I’m ghosted,
I think.
Maybe, I said the wrong thing
To you.
Hurting you
In some way,
Too stubborn to say what you need me to say.

Three dots,
And we are done.
Forever, a memory.
Two back to one.
Insecurity reins,
With those three dots
And I curse the world I saw them.

Three dots,
The death of love.

I want a love like hers.
It’s happy,
They travel,
It’s perfect.

I want to meet someone like him,
So, I can see
The other side
Where the grass is so green.

I want to be something other
Than me
In love
With someone
Different
Than you
With no problems
In a perfect
Life,
With a perfect home.
Where we can laugh together
Forever.
No tears, no hardships
Just perfectly posed
Pictures
With nothing to fear.

I’ve said I loved you
Many different ways.
In texts, over the phone,
In messenger, Audio, and
Video
But never to your face.
Never, to hold you
As the words flew out.

I met you but couldn’t meet you.
Fear of what I survived.
Life and death,
So, I hide,
In tech
And give you my love
From Afar.

One day, we will meet
Under the stars
Where love will grow
In real time.
With touch.
For now, our love will grow
In a modern way.

The Clock Strikes One
As I countdown
Until I can see you.
No more,
Skype,
Chats, or texts
To keep us connected
While you work.
I will see you
Again.
Not a photo, but you.
My love.
Heart and soul,
We’ll be skin to skin.
Heartbeats and breath
Keeping time.

I wait for you.
And I would for a lifetime.
I’d yearn for you,
But I’d wait.
Love, so fierce,
So strong
No matter our distance from each other.
I long for it to be done.
So, I can show you
Our love.
Is still as strong.
Unbroken by what had to be.

Break me with your text.
Say goodbye. Say you love me,
But can’t stay longer.

A ping
To say I love you
A message
To show I care
It’s love
Modern
Look

I make sure the world
Sees
All you do
Or it isn’t real.
Cropped,
Filtered,
And touched up
And we are perfect.
Love,
Unfiltered
A bonus to show
Us
Together.

Love and life
Under
A perfect
Shadow.
True,
Yet false.

Standing outside
Looking in,
Wishing she was there
With him.

Unsure, if she should go alone
She pushes
To let go of her fear,
A false smile
Paints her face
With the lie
Of happiness

A photo
Taken to show she is having fun.
With filters, she erases her discomfort.
Sends it to the world
And him.

He won’t have to worry about her
From the place he sits
Painting his world with normal
For her.

A genuine smile,
His friends,
A place that is chaos
And danger
Cropped to appear normal
To send to her and the world
So, they can live free.

Press return. Maybe
This will be the one that will
Last. Could this be love?

The glow was unnatural
But soothing
To her.
She needed to be
Anonymous.
Her life had spiraled
Into chaos
Whenever she
Loved another.
She lost track of everyone
And everything.
They were
Broken pieces of a puzzle
That didn’t fit her
Life.
It was unfair
To her,
To them,
So, she settled for a moment
To pretend,
To figure out,
How to balance
Love,
And life
Through her unnatural moonlight.

It wasn’t true
For both
But it was true
For a heart.

It wasn’t her heart
That broke.
It was the one that
Didn’t know they had
Met that did.
She was the only one
That was surprised
By our
Words.

She stole a heart
That had made promises to
Another.
And she didn’t
Regret it
For he was the moon
And she was the stars.