Two Reasons I Will Never Fall in Love

I was sitting at a table at the Starbucks today and I realized a very attractive man was sitting across from me.

He made my soul want to hurt and my heart be free

He wanted to take my hand in his

And talk about the ways that The Wizard of Oz is different from The Wiz

He had dark hair, combed back with gel

He told me that any guy that messed with me would go to hell

He told me his favorite song is Politik by Coldplay

Only because he didn’t know how to say in a kinder way

That my hair was unkempt, that my eyes were too red

To compare a rich cat with a dog gone unfed

He was taller than me, on a laptop surfing the web

The words he couldn’t say were what kept me full of dread

Reason #1:  I don’t want to be heartbroken

To stay in bed all night

Crying for all unspoken

Misery not right

After a while he just got up and walked away, saying the words:

“I don’t love you,”

And spectators in my mind were gathering in hoards

At the sight of something so blue

Reason #2:  Love leads to questions

Questions left unanswered

But that was all canceled out, because he was so handsome

And at that moment nothing more mattered

Than the fact that I didn’t know who he was

A stranger gone unspoken

Until I turned my head to see out the window: a bus

And the heart of my soul had yet gone broken

With eyes so broken