Taylor Swift is singing melodies
through my headphones
at three a.m.
and you dare to cross my mind.
I don’t want you here,
your ghost lingering
in my bed.
I can still taste
the beer I kissed
off your lips
on our last night,
when you stopped
whispering ‘Forever and always’.
When you stopped
kissing me back.
When you stopped
loving me.
""
You said you would
meet me in the afterglow,
but now I’m on the outskirts
of town just hoping
I don’t run into your mama
at the corner store
where we shared milkshakes
and fries while enjoying the high.
Just hoping your car
doesn’t drive past
my street again.
""
And maybe I’m just
lost in my head,
but you broke every promise
you ever made to me.
How lucky I am now
to have a man
who will stick by me
through thick and thin,
no matter how much
of a mess I am.
""
Maybe you would hate him,
because he’s everything
that you’re not,
but he helped me up
when I fell.
All you did was leave me
when the darkness
pulled me under.
And maybe I’m just
stuck in my head again,
but you locked me in
and threw away the keys.
Where else can I go?
Your arms were my home,
but now I search for a haven
in these crowded streets.
""
I’m sitting in a corner
with tear-stained cheeks
as he calls me ‘baby’.
He reaches out a hand
that I don’t take
because I don’t want him
to turn out to be
just like you.
""
So maybe you ruined me,
destroyed the care-free girl
that I thought I could be
for the world,
for myself.
Maybe you picked up
the shattered pieces of me
and stitched them together
just to raze them
when you left.
Maybe you took
our favorite places
and ruined them for me.
Maybe this was your plan
all along.
-You don't want my midnights anymore.
