Tuesday, April 1, 2008

my half of it

on this side of paradise i like to keep you 
in dreams 
because if things were real i wouldn't believe.
i'd be disenchanted, jaded, put in my place
that paradise doesn't
really exist

on your side, in your life, i'm stuck 
on a post-it note
that i wrote myself, to remind you that
i'm your friend. i'd be forgotten otherwise 
but that's not too much
of a surprise

on certain lonely days i stop pretending
i'm fulfilled, at peace
with being by myself in the crowd, standing
wistfully pretending, a sad whimpering fool
miserable with my half
the half of paradise without you

humbled,i finally peek over at your side and wish our world wasn't cut into such pieces.

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