Category Poetry

You say that rivers are dirty,that swimming there isn’t a good idea. Maybe that’s why your eyes judge me,why your words cut so sharp. Did I spend too many summers in that river?Should I have stayed inside instead? You say…

Oh to be named “cool”. To hear the guy you like describe you as “chill”.  It doesn’t matter that you toned down your personality to cater to his emotions or that you didn’t react at all.  Because “She’s so cool”…