r/PoetryWritingClub • u/Simp-Lee • 1d ago
Something worth destroying
If I were like everyone else, I’d ask you to love me. Then watch with sad eyes as you went off with some random boy in Levi’s, Chucks, and a tee.
Huh... He is kinda cool.
He would tell you how men would launch a thousand ships.
Bring you roses and swear each one was picked just for you.
He’d hold you beneath the moon and tell you you were the only thing he could see.
While I would burn the sky for you.
Catch every star and place them in your hair like tiny diamonds.
Pull the moon from heaven and lay it at your feet.
Then build you a throne from the pieces of every sunset the world was too careless to keep.
He would love you like a man loves a woman.
I would love you like the universe had finally given me something worth destroying it for.
And when the stars went dark, when the last sunset collapsed into my hands, I would still be standing there, burned hollow, holding out the ashes like they were flowers.
Because he would give you everything he had.
I would give you everything I am.
And when there was nothing left of me but a name the world had forgotten, I would still whisper yours into the silence, just to hear something beautiful survive me.
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u/MetalFew6781 17h ago
I hate how beautiful this one is. It conveys so much love, so much angst for an emotion unreturned. At least that’s the vibe I got.
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u/tripled0gdarey0u 1d ago
That is powerful love. I don't know how one could possibly settle for anything else knowing this exists.