after hours

when we're in love, we deceive ourselves with everything we've got.

the dog sighs into my pocket

the strains of a tv show i'm not watching

echo in discomfort and

everything's a competition when she's around

 

but everything is lacking

because you're not here

 

everything's a competition

when she's around

 

it's hard to remember the girl who thought

marriage would cure everything

it's hard to remember the girl

who thought

love would cure everything

it's hard to remember the girl

 

it's hard to remember the girl

it's hard to remember who thought

love,

it's hard;

it's hard to remember the girl who thought love

would cure everything

 

it's hard to remember the girl

it's hard to remember who thought love

would fix the girl who thought love

would cure everything

 

but it's too easy to remember

the girl who thought love

would make you love her

 

it's too easy to remember the girl who thought

you just had to run far enough

run fast enough

be good enough

to be good enough

to be enough

 

it's hardest of all to remember

it's too easy

and far too hard

to be the girl in your office

after hours

f*****g you

in time with the new year fireworks.

Author's Note

As always, all polite/relevant reviews are welcome - including constructive critique, grammar and spelling corrections. Finally, thank you for taking the time to read/leave a review!

Reviews

[HB]

great emotional capture. I'd like to see what you could do taking the first & last verses and creating a couple more in a similar vein.

[Poeticadia]

Another strong expressive poem. I like the obsessive quality of the repetition and the way it gradually unwraps more of the truth until it launches into the hard, straight confession of the last stanza.