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Standards


Why

Am I

Still

A Single

Item?

 

Perhaps

it is

Ridiculous

Expectations

I possess

 

Out of habit

Can’t be helped

Apparently

I can’t have

A man with

All my desires

 

Do I want

To be kissed

On the hand

And treated like

A medieval princess?

 

Yes.

 

What about if

He had heliotrope

Hair and perpetual

Eyebags but the

Softest touch and

The sweetest tongue?









 

Also yes.

 

Or what if

I wanted to

Have late night

Soliloquies out loud

While we laughed

And exchanged banter?

 

Yes, as well.

 

And even so,

Eyes of sapphire,

Loyalty of titanium,

Resolve of platinum,

Grip on my

Waist: firm feathers?

 

Sign me up.

 

It’s a shame

That my viewing

Of fictitious men

Has tainted my

View of the

Real life ones.

 



 

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vseidner

Hiiiiii! I'm Vanessa! I'm seventeen and a senior in high school. I love, love, LOVE to write and I like to explore different topics. Check out my most recent poem, Knuckles, which is about evolving and fighting a fear head on (for the-you guessed it-Fight the Fear Scholarship Slam). Also read Lukewarm Avidity, which is *gasp* NOT about me! Even though I included "I's"! It's just told through another girl's perspective. Hint hint: it's from a show I'm lucky to have come across, Standards, which I think is kind of funny, since it's about how all the media I've consumed has made my standards for men impossibly high. See if you can guess who I'm referring to! (There are four), Contentment, where I explore what it would be like to be in a long term relationship with someone, Domesticity, which is about my possible inner thoughts about settling down with someone when I graduate college, La Vida, which is in Spanish! (wow), I Would Like, where I took a risk and created a poem entirely of dialogue, Any Questions? Which is really deep and meaningful, man, and Thanks: An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Wronged Me. It's for the O Captain, My Captain Contest. Who knew that bullies could teach you so much? Have a great day!

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Comments (2)

vseidner
<p>I would never, haha.</p>
upnorthdavid
Haha, good poem. Don't settle, don't settle!

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