Her Stardust Eyes

Poetry

falling hard and fast wasn’t in the plans —

certainly not for him, not with his fast track

to greater and greater heights in college —

but he hadn’t anticipated every party

dragging him down lower and lower

even as he sought to make connections

in a world built on acquaintance bonds.

but she was different — as these things go —

because she stood apart from the crowds

and laughed at everyone else for being

just the same fools as their parents were,

though she was honestly no different, really,

with her trust fund and devil-may-care ways

that seemed hollow at the end of the day.

falling in love with her was different too —

or so he tried to tell himself as he followed

her every waking whim through the semesters

even while she played with thoughts of running

off to Paris or Milan, anything to piss off her dad

whom she talked about at great lengths