Do not fall in love with people like me (2014)
Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.
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Do not fall in love with people like me (2018)
Do not fall in love
With people like me.
People like me
will love you so hard
that you turn into stone
into a statue where people
come to marvel at how long
it must have taken to carve
that faraway look into your eyes.
Do not fall in love with people like me.
We will take you to
museums and parks
and monuments
and kiss you in every beautiful
place so that you can
never go back to them
without tasting us
like blood in your mouth.
Do not come any closer.
People like me
are bombs
when our time is up
we will splatter loss
all over your walls
in angry colors
that make you wish
your doorway never
learned our name.
Do not fall in love
with people like me.
With the lonely ones
we will forget our own names
if it means learning yours.
We will make you think
hurricanes are gentle
that pain is a gift.
You will get lost
in the desperation
in the longing for something
that is always reaching
but never able to hold.
Do not fall in love
with people like me.
We will destroy your
apartment.
We will throw apologies at you
that shatter on the floor
and cut your feet.
We will never learn
how to be soft.
We will leave.
We always do.
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Caitlyn Siehl
“Do not fall in love with people like me” from Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems (2014) and from What We Buried (2018)
© 2014/2018 Caitlyn Siehl
Photo by Leyla M on Unsplash
