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Unrequited

by Jaime Martin

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Music produced by Kafele Bandele - www.kafelemusic.com

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Unrequited

Sometimes it seems like life picks you up
Brushes you off
Straightens your shirt
Makes you believe everything is going to be okay
Then punches you in the stomach
The majority of my recent relationships
Have been kind of like that
And I wish I could tell you that this isn’t 3nd or even 4th time
I’ve had to write this poem
But...
Because they like me sure
But they don’t love me
Don’t know how to
And I tell myself do not fall in love
Hope maybe it will hurt less
Didn’t notice your fingers
Already wrapped around my heart
So enamored I didn’t feel the first
Pull
Twist
Should have known
When I started to lose sleep thinking about you
The pull, twist
Pull twist
The final snap of aorta would not have come as a surprise
The phrase “I just want to be friends”
Twisting in my stomach
“Unrequited” a neon sign blinking:
“You
Don’t get to have this”
An endless loop of:
“It’s not you, it’s me”
Heard the lines:
“I don’t want to hurt you”
And “I don’t want to lose our friendship”
So many times
I should have them tattooed into my skin
I have given these parts of myself away so effortlessly
Only to feel like I’m being punished for doing so
And some days are better than others
But there will be nights I will lie awake
Wondering whether something may be wrong with me
Whether all I get to have is these little moments of amazing
They pile on top of each other to form empty promises
Of relationships that never quite happen
I beginning to sense a pattern here
There are days
Where I just stand there
Try really hard not to fly apart
See maybe you weren’t really listening when I told you that
This time together
Meant something to me
I thought it meant something to you too
But apparently
It didn’t mean enough
And I
Am so tired
Of being your fucking comfort blanket
Of being the cornerstone that you use to hold up the archway of your self-esteem
Just so someone else
Can drive through
So no
We can’t just be friends
Because you don’t
Get to have this
For free anymore

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released May 11, 2013
Music produced/composed by Kafele Bandele - www.kafelemusic.com

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Jaime Martin New York, New York

Jaime Martin is a writer, performer, comic artist, and professional nerd. He currently lives and works in New York City and wishes they would bring Firefly back.

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