An Exchange

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

I cry and weep silently.

I then laugh for I am alone.

I can cry loud and ugly.

I can cry as freely as I want.

But then I cry again,

For I am alone.

I maybe forever will remain as so.

 

The waves try to calm me down.

They crash and they hush me.

I apologize to them.

I know I have made the mood

Incredibly sad and quite depressing.

Tears fall and stain the sand.

I say that I am sorry,

We all just met and here I am,

Showing that I am a mess and a fool.

 

But then I am crying again,

For I am alone on this island,

Will probably never be found,

And I will never say I love you

And he will never say it back to me.

I have never loved and been loved back

I always imagined the exchange,

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

 

His face was always a mystery.

Now I know it will remain as so.

I love my friends and I love my family,

But I have never had a love so great.

I will never have a love that is great.

I look across at the ocean.

“I love you.”

And I glance down at the sand.

“I love you too.”

 

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