I want to love you.
I want to snuggle
on the couch and
watch a Disney movie.
I want to forget about
school and my chores
and my anxiety and
pretend we're the only
two creatures in the world.
But I can't. Because I don't.
And I can't force myself to
love you, no matter how much
I try. You're not my soulmate
and that's okay. You deserve
to be able to find yours.
And I hope you do. Because
you're amazing. And one day,
you will.
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A Perpetual Existence: A Collected Work of Poems and Verse
PoetryHi, I'm Juliana. What you see here is every poem I've ever written (minus a few drafts that I don't feel comfortable posting). Thus, some of them are gems (see An Arbor to the Moon, The Quiet, or Hamster), and others I fully understand if you read t...