Notable Similarity

Notable Similarity

I could’ve kissed you there that night,
Underneath the spotlights, though they weren’t quite on,
It still appeared you shone
With the face of a fallen angel.
 
We each were tired and needing rest,
So tomorrow would come to have our best
And we could both lie, tell them
We weren't here.
 
We never did quite sleep.
 
I wondered if you’d heard my sighs
Amidst our half-cut smiles and
Between our long goodbyes.
It seemed we’d walked for miles in the not-quite-cold of winter.
 
I toyed with just admitting that this was all a bluff,
That you and I were real enough
To carry on walking
Into the sunrise. Alas,
You were just an avatar.
 
We would speak and I would laugh as sheepishly you'd smile at me,
While all the time I would ignore
You cast her silhouette.
 
You'd smell like her too.  
You're so beautiful,
You
 
 
It hurt 'cause you never
Were
Quite you.
 
 
Your platonic touch feels
Just like hers,
Reassuringly full
Of sincerity and love; your cold hands also
Because, like her, I’d bleed you dry.
 
I'd love the way you walk,
The way you hum and talk
Like her;
The way you say you hate me
Just the way that she would;
The way that we'd fight if I let you be
A little bit more her.
 
But no, I shan’t;
I truly can’t.
I’ve had her before and what I want
Is you,
The you that is loved for who you are
And not just for being
Another avatar
Of one I cannot have,
Of one I'll never have,
Again.
 
 
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