“I want you in my life,” you said.
\nI believed you really meant it.
\nBut for someone who
\nWants me in their life
\nYou are remarkably silent
\nAnd this relationship feels
\nAwfully one sided.<\/p>\n
Maybe we have different ideas
\nOf what it means to want someone?
\nI know you don’t see me as more
\nThan just a friend.
\nBut even as your friend
\nI am feeling left behind
\nAnd forgotten.<\/p>\n
Now, now, there’s no need to worry
\nI am not trying to call you out.
\nI mean, not really, I don’t think.
\nI’m just trying to express how I feel.
\nIt’s absolutely NOT a reflection on you.
\nI am totally fine being “that friend.”
\nYou know, that friend of convenience,
\nThe one you only have to think about
\nIf they are standing next to you,
\nOr when they text you “Hello.”
\nBut don’t feel pressured
\nTo respond to my text right away
\nOr even in the same day.
\nI am just here for your convenience.<\/p>\n
It’s been a couple of months
\nSince we last talked.
\nI should probably ask for my comics back.
\nNot that I don’t trust you’ll give them back eventually,
\nI wouldn’t have loaned them to you if I didn’t,
\nBut maybe it’s best to cut the ties now
\nRather than hold out too long,
\nLet my hopes get too high.
\nBest to squash that sooner
\nRather than later, don’t you think?<\/p>\n
Sorry, I keep making this about you.
\nIt’s actually about me.
\nReally, it is.
\nIt’s all about me.
\nIt’s about my seeming inability
\nTo mean much to some people.
\nIt’s about how I’m always the one
\nThat has to be “okay”
\nWith being left alone,
\nThe one that has to be “okay”
\nWith being ignored,
\nThe one that has to be “okay”
\nWith being easily forgettable.
\nReally, it’s okay.
\nI am just here for your convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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