I wanted to say yes.
I wanted to take your hand in mine and like a couple of idiots, run through the heavy traffic and pouring rain, and keep at it till our feet resign.
We'd find a tree with branches wide enough with leaves broad or plentiful enough to take shelter under, and there, you'd place your head on my lap as I'd sing you my favorite love song. The song I'd always wanted you to sing to me.
If only I hadn't found out the hard way that your feelings for me are but as thin as an onion's skin and that I could never accept and bow down to no matter how suave your courting style may be. If only I was stupider than what I really am- mayb
Superman Called In Sick by ThanatosLotus, literature
Literature
Superman Called In Sick
tried to replicate
tried to simulate
couldn't give anymore
was already unconscious
dried up and suffocating
tried to endure
with the hope that tomorrow
might be better, thinking
that maybe I could get back up
thinking I could try again
thinking I could rebuild myself
and try to care about this again
perhaps this didn't have to end
too late, fucked it up
too late, the dream dissipates
but wait, I heard them say
that superman called in today
he's sick and can't make it
maybe all hope isn't lost
maybe we're too expectant