brightlightsloudnoises:

we were really good;

we tried to find poems,
songs about us
but they failed,
they weren’t even close,

and there was a lot
to celebrate in that,
there was success in
their failure
and we
drank to
that

too much

brightlightsloudnoises:

yes,
i called you in
a moment of weakness.

I just got a rejection
letter,
mostly I don’t
care about other
people’s opinions
but I had needed this specific
victory,
I needed this piece
of paper to say yes
and not no

and before I got it
all the way out of
the envelope I could
feel the no
in the fibers of the thin sheet
and
my soul that was walking
that tightrope
so well
finally looked down
and
tumbled

so,
grasping at straws,
my hand
landed on my phone
and my fingers on your
number

and of course you
didn’t answer

you were never mine to miss.