not just obsessed Poet Free verse

again and again

I was working at the market when the news of you first hit town 
with you came a silence, your boots on the pavement became my only sound
what started as glimpses of you in the light
soon after I was haunted by your face in the night 
I waited for a moment when your eyes would reach mine 
you had me imprisoned and you were the crime 
I took a walk around the valley and searched for you there 
wrote a hundred different letters that soon I would tear
but you saw me that night walking out of the close 
asked how I was, I nearly choked 
it’s like you froze time 
and you gave me new vision 
things I’d never even glanced at, lit up bad decisions 
I couldn’t shake off infatuation with you 
I had felt so used up and you made me brand new 
your face had been etched into each waking thought 
my head was so full of everything I’d been taught 
and all these years later, you still live in my head 
I still wake up in the early hours, reach to your side of the bed 
that you never even slept in 
yet there’s all this empty space 
that you once took up, smile wiped from my face 
and even if I now know, not to wait around 
there’s a part of me that still yearns
for you to return
with everything that you’ll learn 
you’ll repaint this town
fill my life with your sound
pick up where we left off, really turn things around
because I’m still at the market 
everything’s just the same 
I’m ready to hear of you, 
again and again

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