If Only You Knew Poem by Krissy Sosa

To me, you bring feeling to my insipid life

Your presence cuts into me, unforgiving like a jagged knife

The past is the past, but how could I ever forget?

In the end I got hurt, but I’m still choosing to lament

I could’ve flicked back a deuces and stood there looking tall,

But I stuck around, forgave you, it became hard to withdraw,

And yes you are that utterly stimulating to me

But the gist of the joke is that there is no ‘we’

Or at least a legitimate label for what I call ‘us’

One day I’ll find words to describe these feelings of lust

They say you can’t put a price on love, perhaps this relates to that

So far there is no word for when you talk and my eyelashes just bat

No artist could interpret such a sensation, a passion so refined

This feeling is a complexity drilled deep inside my mind

It’s not fair, so many vibes and not one reciprocated

You stole my strength and literally had it infiltrated

I wish I could open your eyes to all the subliminal things you do

Whenever I catch a gaze I think, “if only you knew”