Starved for Love

A Poem

Photo by Mulyadi on Unsplash

i sit on the edge of this galaxy,
wondering where things went wrong,
while life skittered away again and again —
lost at my fingertips, gone away to some far-off plane.

and i’m watching you sit with her
in some dream of an afterlife gone away,
and i’m listless in this way of love
tying itself up in knots upon knots upon knots, twined.

i thought i knew you —
but i didn’t know a thing at all, did i?

i sink down onto a bed made of broken feathers,
and there’s no point to it at all —
this life spun on a globe made of chaos and fire —
but i still hoped i would find some meaning in those eyes of yours.

and i’m imagining a better life
where we didn’t part like ghosts in the dead of night —
but so it went, so it went, so it always went —
as if you were ever meant to be mine beyond dreams at midnight.

i thought i knew you —
but i didn’t know a thing at all, did i?