or, This is why people like me shouldn't be alone
for my heart, which is lonely

If only for a moment, I should receive the happiness I've earned.

Winter is long and I seem to be one of the few who wouldn't have it be any shorter. It gives me hopes of cuddling up with someone, losing myself in another person's warmth.

Shake me, so I'll realize you really are there and this has all been a dream. Wrap your arms around me and we'll go back to sleep.

People seem happy when they are in love and I just go about my business pretending not to notice.

This will seem so distant someday soon. I'll be astounded at how young I was and how naive. I'll read this aloud, amusing someone else with how lonely I seemed and how desperate it all was. I'll give him a hug -- a peck on the cheek and tell him how lucky I am to have someone so wonderful in my life. He'll make a sarcastic quip, as though the sentiment was lost, but he'll have heard me. And he'll silently agree.

I'm using "the Secret," hoping for an attorney from Lubbock. Or maybe just more money. Or maybe some guy with no job, still living at home.

I want to feel taken [for granted].

Should it come up in conversation, make me sound easy without sounding too slutty. I want to assert my availability without attracting the wrong set of people. I think you know who to look out for. Make sure they aren't wearing lavender... or chaps. No, wait, chaps can be hot.

I have secrets to whisper to you when we are alone.

3.13.2008

03/13/2008

Posted on 02/20/2009
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