we just started our poetry unit in sophomore english and it made me think about the way your face looks when you laugh

and i could write a thousand words just about the way you smiled at me at my 16th birthday party
and now i associate your smile with a particular song

and yeah i love that song but i can't listen to it without thinking of your smile
which makes me sad because we go to different schools now
and the way you talked about her killed me on the inside and i acted like it didn't hurt

and it made me wonder why you even bothered to get so involved in me
and when i'm in love i write poems
so i guess that's why i wrote this about you

no, this isn't a dramatic love story
even though i wish it was
i used to be dripping in the color yellow but now it's all gone and i don't know what to do with myself