Some Things I Know Poem by Maya Reid

You’re secretly taller than you look
(Though I’ll still call you short)
You have the most beautiful eyes
I think I have ever seen
You like teaching people to do things
Be it play a video game or understand econ
You love sports so much
That I’ve begun to love them too
You don’t like the way I curse
And hate my instinct to hit first,
Ask questions last
I can’t eat a piece of meatless pizza
And you’ve never even tasted flesh
I know I wouldn’t give up my heels
Even though I’ve already changed because of you
Though I’m not sure if for you
I know we’re absolutely impossible,
Me and you,
The idea of us being together
Makes no goddamn sense
(There I go again)
I’m sure the world would laugh at me
If ever I were brave enough to voice it
I think even I might laugh at me
All this I know,
And one thing more:
In the middle of the night as I
Climb back up the stairs
I sometimes think of turning around,
Descending,
Falling for you.