like a story

Remember  sitting  in  your  kitchen  
making  up  stories  together
something  about  it  felt  
as  intimate  as  sex.    
I  should  know
 we've  done  both  

You  have  a  line  
from  our  song,    
tattooed  on  your  arm  

We  don't  have  a  song
We  just  like  the  same  music

Echoes  of  you
are  in  my  every  love  poem.  
Echoes  of  me  
are  in  your  novel.

We  never  wrote  anything
while  thinking  of  each  other.  
we  are  nothing  if  not    
professionals  of  plausible  deniability.  
I'm  just  an  old  friend  you  write  with.  

I  made  you  up.  
Created  us  out  of  ink,  loneliness    
 and  longing  like  we’re  a  story

Where  love  is  tragic  but  real  
Where  secrets  make  interesting    subtext
The  story  in  which  we’re  special  enough  together  
between  the  lines  
between  the  sheets  
between  the  laughter  and  the  warmth  
for  your  vows  to  her  
to  not  matter  all  that  much.  

Maybe  I  love  the  story  
more  than  I  love  you?

What  if  I  made  you  up?  
What  if  I  didn’t?
What  if  "the  other  woman"  
has  no  right  to  believe  
in  such  a  heartbreakeningly  
beautiful  story,  
because  your  wife  is  real  
because  you  reaturning  to  her  is  real
What  if  I  didn't  make  you  up?    

адреса: https://www.poetryclub.com.ua/getpoem.php?id=780251
Рубрика: Стихи, которые не вошли в рубрику
дата надходження 04.03.2018
автор: petra pan