is anyone listening?

A poem

as we wait for our turns to speak my eyes wander down your temples they rest at your jawline before they move to your lips

how badly I wanna kiss you right now

a frown between your eyebrows you look at me as though you want an answer

I haven’t paid attention

“sorry, what did you just say?”

your voice is moving through my skull rearranging my feelings for you that I had thought to be gone

one hundred and twenty-two reasons why we shouldn’t go down that way why you hurt me why what we had wasn’t enough why we weren’t a good match

one hundred and twenty-two one hundred and twenty-three

I am still coming up with new ones

as my tongue is desperately waiting for you to finish so that I can talk and make you listen.

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