VELVET
If he had told me two hours and
five minutes ago, before the sun had
set, maybe things would be different.
We wouldn't have had to confess our
love out of necessity.
No one mentions how love pursues
torment more than it does comfort.
Hopeless romantics are irrational
masochists, for who would willingly
want to experience a piercing pain
they know will eventually come? I am
a hopeless romantic, I laugh.
Because of that, I say it back, "I love
you too."
Maybe if the world was kinder to us. If he wasn't forced into a burning
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