06: Open - June 2021

Lavender

call me, lavender
 when i’m back on that bench 
 the sea now bringing in fresh waters whilst i’m back to where i started 
 staring out 
 stranded somewhere between missing you 
 and letting you go 
 and between the muffled crashes, your voice 
 just say you want me too 
 

 call me, lavender 
 on the same night that i lay awake with the moon 
 realizing that i fall for people like my father
 and wondering what about absence attracts my heart 
 because no part of love looks like waiting for an apology or explanation
 i admit, i don’t know love 
 just love-shaped things 
 that i pour into myself no matter 
 good or bad 
 because i’m empty - 
 i’m half a woman,
 half an orphan
 

 call me lavender  
 or call me sunshine 
 when you tell me in a half-sorry way that i’m hard to love 
 in the past i would have healed this with a clueless anyone 
 but anyone else isn’t you 
 and that turns out to be a huge problem for me 
 but even you aren’t you, i don’t know you 
 i know our empty promises 
 our favorite colour 
 

 lavender,
 i guess the three years
 during which you wanted me 
 had nothing on those
 two days 
 but don’t let me be misunderstood
 because i am not chasing you 
 as i am perfectly trained in being alone 
 but we could have been happy, 
 that’s perhaps the hardest thing to know

-Wiktoria Smigas
 

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