Soft and sullen
The girl unwilling
To give love a try
Creates her wishes on the ceiling
She climbs inside her mind
The perfect place to hide
A shelter from the feelings
Escaping to sublime
But the yearning pokes her conscience
his smile evokes and prods
nerves she wants desperately to deaden
she ignores his winks and nods
she tries cruelty,
emits anti-nice
flexing cold shoulders
beneath her pauldrons of ice
She climbs inside her mind
The perfect place to hide
A shelter from the feelings
Escaping to sublime
but he won’t give up, won’t give in
persisting through uninvited
how long will his attempts to love
remain so unrequited
She pretends not to care
to be unaware
the emotions she feels bubbling up
she chooses not to share
She climbs inside her mind
The perfect place to hide
A shelter from the feelings
Escaping to sublime
Royalty in her reality
She wears a single crown
The queen of singles
Pushes love back down
Her valiant knight is stubborn
Faces her denial like a giant
A test of wills
Him: unrelenting, her: defiant
She climbs inside her mind
The perfect place to hide
A shelter from the feelings
Escaping to sublime
The boy conscripted to another kind of battle
Never to return to his hometown
The girl cried on the inside
Then shoved the love back down
Take heed young worried ones
The hurt is heavier than the single crown
A cautionary tale of
Shoving love back down
She climbs inside her mind
The perfect place to hide
A shelter from the feelings
Escaping to sublime
Escaping… yet alone.
By Royce Waxenfelter
11/21/19
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