Some of you may prefer
to get your dose of bitter
from the dark chocolate
you will get tomorrow
in those heart-shaped boxes,
but personally? I prefer
to make bitter a key part
of my personality.
Picked Last
I’d rather be picked last
in every game of kickball
for the rest of my life
than face yet another
Valentine’s Day single,
knowing once again
that no one picked me.
Most Lonely Feeling of All
This time of year is always hard for me.
I see everyone around me in love
and more than anything I wish I could be.
I can’t even walk in a Walmart for
at least another two weeks, minimum,
because to see all of those shelves full of
trinkets that to show how much you care
remind me how little no one in my life does.
I’m not saying that a $5 stuffed animal
or a stale heart box of chocolates
measures how much some one loves you,
but when you have none of those things,
it makes it glaringly obvious to all
that I have not a person in my life
that was even willing to give it a try
and that it the most lonely feeling of all.
I Would Be an Amazing Girlfriend
I would be amazing girlfriend.
I would always ask about your day.
I would inquire about your family.
I would send you memes when you need a laugh.
I would have a shoulder when you need to vent.
I would bake you cookies to make you smile.
I would take care of you when you are sick.
I would squeeze your hand for gentle encouragement.
I would hold you hand on walks in the park
I would light up every time I see you.
I would get your family to love me too.
I would kiss you goodnight and goodbye in the mornings.
I would flirt and banter until all hours of the night.
I would sometimes know where we should go out to eat.
I would have great ideas about cute dates.
I would love you until the end of time.
I would be everything you could ever dream of.
I would be an amazing girlfriend….
but no one will give me the chance.
Hopeless
I’m a hopeless romantic,
empahsis on the hopeless.
I’d like to say I’m more
on the romantic side,
but who would be there
to confirm my alibi?
No one, like always.
So all those dreams
and hidden smiles
and contained laughs
and audible sighs
will just have to wait
because who would be there
to enjoy what I have to
offer to the world?
No one, like always.
Trinkets
It makes my heart so sad
to hear all these girls talk
about what they want
(and will probably get)
for valentines day.
They want flowers
and cards
and chocolates
and candies
and teddy bears
and big gestures
and I am insanely jealous.
Not of the things they’ll get,
because stupid trinkets
from an aisle at Walmart
don’t interest me.
I envy their status;
their position;
the fact that they are
in a place where they can
have and set expectations
such as these meaningless items
because all I want
are three short words
but I will never hear them.
Instead, I’ll get three different words instead:
you’re not enough.
And I never will be.
Holiday Feels
Nothing quite brings out the “Holiday Feels”
like being the only single one at the table.
Nothing reminds me of the hurt
filling my empty heart
like seeing the love and joy that fills many others.
Nothing brings me such pain
as dreaded questions and comments like
“Why didn’t you bring someone?” or
“Oh, well there’s always next year”.
Nothing brings me such envy
as seeing kisses and tenderness
that I can only imagine in dreams
Nothing brings me the “Holiday Feels”
like being subjected to time with family.
Alone for the Holiday
Alone, yet again
for another holiday.
Me myself and I
will be present Christmas day.
No one to snuggle
and kiss under mistletoe.
No one to bring home
There’s no one to want to go.
Alone, yet again
No reason for me to brag.
To Christmas dinner
My parents will have to drag.
I love Christmas time,
but it gets harder each year.
No one to love me,
Kills all of my Christmas cheer.
Love is Taken for Granted
Love is taken for granted.
People just don’t understand
How fortunate they are now
To hold one another’s hand.
Some people aren’t that lucky.
Not everyone has that chance.
It’s hard to find a soul mate.
It is hard to find romance.
Love is taken for granted.
People don’t always see
That nothing lasts forever-
Love leaves just as easily.
Easy come and easy go,
Heartbroken and alone.
What you then took for granted
Has turned your heart to stone.
Love is taken for granted.
People don’t always know
How easy it would be for
a person to just let go.
Remember every joy;
Every moment that you make.
Love isn’t always given
But someone will always take.
Comes With a Cost
Happy couples; happy mind.
Happy hands all intertwined.
Single, alone, in the cold.
Without a single hand to hold.
Left alone with envious eyes.
Every friendship; now despise.
Once found love; now long lost.
Every joy comes with a cost.
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