The Romantic

Sugar coating was a rare and gentrified talent---

one that I never fostered,

having lived all the way over here

too busy figuring it out

too busy keeping my track record---

and keeping my sleeves all up in arms

things were simmering under the surface

and lingering in the air

leaving nothing in the middle

but I was incapable of treading any longer---

or paddling back---

to you

especially when I figured this all out---

and that we were merely the penultimate