10 Metaphors for Describing How You Fell Out of Love with Me
1. You were the noose and I was the tree; our timing was always slightly off.
2. We both knew the myth of a vampire looking in a mirror and not seeing its reflection. I knew it was over when you woke up and said you couldn’t see me in your future, even when I was standing right behind you. That night, I dreamt of garlic, stakes, and heartbreak.
3. You always said I was your star, but couldn’t stay awake long enough at night to see them come out.
4. Once, when we were reading together in the evening with my feet on your lap, you told me that you always thought the blinking of fireflies meant that they were communicating in Morse code, but after you took an entomology class you discovered their blinking was used for mate selection. A few months before we ended, you started turning the bedroom lights off when we had sex and refused to talk to me until we were finished and the lights were back on again.
5. A year later, and I still keep wondering if you were trying to tell me something with every flip of the light switch, even though I know it’s futile to place meaning in something that doesn’t matter anymore.
6. Clark’s Nutcrackers, a type of grey and black mountain bird, bury thousands of seeds each year and can remember where most of them are. You remembered all our arguments but never our anniversaries.
7. Down at our favorite river, with our feet in the tide, I told you my favorite kind of current was the one so smooth you could almost write in it. You stopped writing me poems sometime midway through our relationship, and the river dried up shortly after.
8. I was a storm and you were just the stormchaser that eventually decides he’s had enough of putting himself in the path of destruction.
9. I tried not to leave any debris behind after you left me. I’m sorry. But tornadoes almost always uproot at least one house.
10. Like the recipient of a heart transplant, I was always yours, but you were never mine.
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