Literature
I've lost faith in you if you haven't caught on
well you have seen this before,
some page of my poetry laying naked
on your computer or phone screen
like some discarded x-file.
and you read the lines greedily,
wondering if maybe, just maybe
I am writing about you
and I am.
You smile at that because you know
that you have my words tied between your fingers
and you could set them loose if you wanted to.
You like the control.
You could shut off your computer screen,
turn off your phone
never message me back and
it would not make a difference.
These files will still be here,
my thoughts and your thoughts still
clouding the windshield of my head
and we will still never be together.