Fleeting Wishes

A Poem

Photo by Dana Tentis: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-woman-674130/

i tell myself every time
that i’ll never desire
what i can’t have

but you —
you were always the exception,
the counter point to all my rules

late at night,
with all my ghosts,
i imagined you there

all that dandelion fluff
fluttering in the wind —
all of it was for you

but then i saw you
at the bar,
standing with her

and i ached
as if my heart
had become a bruise

and i wondered why
i couldn’t help wanting
a person destined for someone else

because i could see it,
plain as day,
you two were meant to be

still —
i took to my pages
and made us a story

it wasn’t a tale of romance
or even one of daring heists —
but just a world where we could coexist