Hey, You

Trust me,

You said

It's not an emotion that comes naturally to me

We were hipster youth clichés

Exceptional

Proving every rule we broke

But you always were an anomaly

Weren't you, love

Your shy until a blink

Snapshots in crowds

Your pose more sincere than themselves,

Your sincere, in its moments, a warm blanket kind of hurt

Your head tilt, hat conscious, covered up

But you didn't have to tell me

I learned to read your codes

Speak your languages

And you saw right through me

At last

Thankyou, accidental transparencies

Insight offers such lasting bonds

Don't leave

I fell in love with your damages

Your bone hollows, your absences

I fell in love with how you hurt

Like I hurt

Like you hurt me

And we hurt each other in the end

Don't we?

There's an us here

I think you can see it

I can't find it either and they can't see at all

But I was the blind one

I fell in love with how you ended it

How counterproductive

I guess we have to fall apart now

Incessant crows

We ruffled their tick boxes

But they got their paperwork, paper words, paper cut hearts

After all

I don't like being told I'm wrong

So I won't listen

Until you

They don't want to say I-told-you-so

They think I've been telling lies

They really think I can do better

Well.

They never met my you