Beautiful boy

I had forgotten

Lady love didn’t tell me 

He was in love with me

I do not love myself

Nor see myself the way he sees me

I hope he wouldn’t hate me

When I tell him all I wanted

Was a boy who would smile at me

At a walkway and not come back for me 

For long conversation

Am sorry!

I do not know too well

To get to the end of a sentence

I swear am terrified of his presence

I just might pray the earth open

And swallow me from my feet

Up to my chin and fill

I am a poor petrified girl, running from falling

Beautiful boy

His mother raised him proudly

And so I stand

In a crowd of auctioning girls

At his beck and call

With dresses like dolls

Beautiful boy

Would you remember me?

Whilst you’re walking home from school

Or watching a fairy whisk to glory

Reading Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

Would you remember me?

The girl behind your every shadow

Beautiful boy

I love you

Narrative

This sets the tone of a beautifully gorgeous yet shy girl who would only come unless you call, whose words come in glitches, who would never learn to live magnificently until she runs out of her shell.

Used words& terms

-‘lady love’: imaginary fiction

- ‘petrified’: dazed/stunned

-‘magnificently’: impressively beautiful