Least Read Poems About Unrequited Love

Contorted reasoning
with an assorted seasoning
of flavored bullshit.
I tried to savor it as it hit.
Alas, ignorance was bliss.
Your traveling kisses
believed to be wholesome,
delivered too late; I succumbed.
Knelt with tears seeping
through my fingers, keeping
what was left of me whole.
Strikes against my soul.
Still, I felt hopeful, so I waited
while good memories faded.
Eventually revealing
that we were not healing.
I softly inhaled, then a hard sigh
because you never even tried.

The only people who make love all the time are liars."

It was slaying dragons
Waiting
Because one day
My prince will come

Followed abruptly by
That freshly illustrated
Slick talkin' character
Reminding him
"I can still charm the best of them"

She sits, years later
Older, looked over, just a princess
"I rather go see brave new worlds"
So, to the lover before them, they swipe left

Chasing new tails
Sorry Mr. Disney
That's why I don't trust

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