The Isolation of Lonely People:
we are all separate bodies.
that’s what keeps me up at night.
we are all confined inside our skin,
even if you find someone
who matches your curves perfectly,
and fills all of the open spaces of your body
there is still a border between your two beings.
no matter how close to each other you lie,
the person who completes you
can only fit the outside.
he can never go into you and fit,
like a key in a lock,
with the pieces of your previously splintered heart.
his heart can never be sewn together with yours
he can’t make the broken edges of your heart stop stinging with pain.
no matter how many breakfasts in bed he surprises you with,
no matter how many movies he doesn’t watch because he only sees you,
no matter how many ‘I love you's’ are whispered across the room,
across the phone,
across the distance from his lips to your ear,
he will never be able to fix you
This poem is sad, but I really like it. There are some really good and poetic lines like "no matter how close to each other you lie, the person who completes you can only fit the outside". I like how you repeated the beginning of some lines like "no matter how many" in multiple lines in a row, because it adds emphasis and rhythm to the poem.
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