
171 things about you.
- You’re a dork. Nerd chic and cute.
- You make me feel worthwhile.
- I am a guy when I’m with you.
- When you mess up my pronouns, you feel bad.
- You feel bad when you’re an ass to my friends.
- You tell horrible jokes.
- You write me songs.
- You draw me pictures.
- The songs all make sense now. I find pieces of you in all of them.
- You’re stupid sometimes.
- You look at me when a sappy song comes on.
- When I cry, you cry.
- You constantly compliment me.
- You get mas when people make fun of me.
- You actually seem to give a fuck about me.
- It makes you sad when I’m depressed.
- You help me calm down when my anxiety’s high.
- You think I’m adorable.
- You play basketball with me.
- You tease me about my poetry, but not in a mean way.
- You apologise after you do something wrong.
- You don’t make fun of my headspace. I’m not sure you fully understand it, but still.
- I smile when you smile.
- Your smile is “like bright white firecrackers in a starless sky” (John Green).
- Your laugh.
- Your eyes.
- You make me laugh.
- You love the rain almost as much as I do.
- I told you what my favourite cologne was. You went and bought it the next day.
- You’re not stuck in your past.
- Our conversations.
- You don’t treat me like a freak.
- You’re trying.
- Your confusion makes sense to me.
- You drink black coffee. I hate the taste but love the smell.
- You always give me the nicest plate.
- You inspire poetry.
- You inspire music.
- You have “a whole magnificent soul burning brightly behind [your] shy” (Atticus).
- You don’t judge me about my past.
- You don’t want to be “the man”, just a man.
- There is a glimmer in you.
- You aren’t alone. You never were.
- You help me erase my darkness.
- You are my destination.
- It’s easy to be myself when I’m with you.
- The thought of you is enough to keep me alive.
- You are my peace. My sky full of stars. My sunrise and my sunset. My art museum. My sun and moon.
- You help me believe.
- You help me remember what it is to live.
- It feels like you would do almost anything for me.
- “But something tells me I must love you” (Geoffery Nutter).
- You understand, even when I don’t feel particularly understandable.
- Your “smile could end wars and cure cancer” (John Green).
- I’m okay being invisible with you.
- Je pense que je t’aime.
- You do stupid things to make me happy.
- The thought of losing you crushes me. It hurts because you matter.
- You are poetry.
- I don’t deserve you. Or your love.
- You say that love is fake, but then you say you love me. Which is it? Which do you believe?
- I’m tired of losing you.
- You + little kids = my heart’s demise.
- You feel like home.
- Happiness looks gorgeous on you.
- You’re worth more than mascara (poem reference).
- Sometimes you can be really funny and make me laugh. You also don’t make fun of my real laugh.
- Thinking of you keeps the nightmares away.
- Thinking of you helps my anxiety recede.
- You act tough.
- But you’re really a softie.
- You are a melody.
- I feel like I’m not good enough for you.
- This list is so easy to write, because it’s all true.
- You usually make me feel safe.
- You’re an ass.
- You can be so sweet.
- I know you’d never hurt me intentionally.
- I’m sorry I’m leaving you here.
- You shine brighter than any galaxy.
- I’m so fucking stupid to love you like this, especially after you hurt my friends.
- But I can’t stop. And that’s scary.
- I’m sorry that bad things have ever happened to you. You don’t deserve that and it breaks my heart.
- I really hope you believe in love, because life without love is pointless.
- You care. I care too much.
- You put up with my bullshit.
- You’re not afraid or ashamed of who you are.
- I can’t stop reading your letter.
- You don’t make fun of my stuffed animals.
- Every time I talk to you, I am simultaneously anxious and calm. I hate it.
- I’m not sure I should share all of this with you.
- But I probably will.
- You’re being a prick again.
- I wish you would stop. I don’t think you realise just how much you’re hurting me. I stick up for you and then you prove me wrong.
- It makes me feel so stupid.
- And like all I deserve is crap.
- That nobody will ever love me, because I haven’t earned it.
- I’m sorry that you think this is your only option. You’re so much better than this.
- Abz just broke a lightbulb and I hid two pieces. But Antion came to talk to us so I gave them up.
- I really wanted to use them, though.
- I went off on you for trying to talk to me.
- So now you keep looking at me all sad-like.
- And I feel like a bitch,
- Abz says you’re doing it because you care and don’t want to see me hurting.
- But you’re sure as fuck not acting like it.
- I only have a few days left.
- And you’re making them shit.
- It’s not fair.
- It’s not my fault I’m leaving.
- I really don’t want to. Trust me.
- But even after all of this, I still love you.
- And that makes me so fucking stupid.
- I really wish this would end.
- Because I have so much faith in you.
- I believe in you.
- I just don’t believe what you say.
- Because sometimes, people say things just to make other people feel better.
- You are so much stronger than me. I envy that.
- Abz said she was going to ask me out, but she didn’t because she knows I really do love you.
- You mean so fucking much to me.
- I love how your eyes change colours when you’re talking to me. Green means happy/flirty. Brown means sad/mad/anxious.
- When your eyes are brown, they’re gorgeous. But it makes me sad.
- Because I know you’re hurting.
- We all hurt.
- “Unravel me to understand me” (Robert M. Drake).
- You are my almost. I love you, but you only almost love me. We are almost together.
- I wish I could hold your hand.
- Because when I want nothing more than to hold someone’s hand, I think of you.
- You are always in my mind.
- You have me wrapped around your finger.
- When you tell me you love me, I wait for a “but…”
- I hope for a “no matter what”.
- I love you in a way that words can’t express.
- You look at me like there is something in me worth looking at.
- You try to hide your feelings so I don’t worry, but I think you forget that your eyes tell me all I need to know.
- You hate many things about yourself, but they are my poetry. I love them, because they make you.
- I fell for you like the raindrops.
- I’m sorry I have burdened you with my presence.
- I don’t know why I keep thinking I have a chance with you.
- It’s stupid of me to think you could fall for me, too.
- You have flaws. We both know that. But I still think you are as close to perfect as anyone can be.
- You told me this morning that you’re acting the way you are because you’re depressed about me leaving.
- I’m sorry that I let you in. Because look what it’s doing to you.
- I use different words and different languages when I speak of you because “I love you” is so overused. It’s worn out, and my adoration of you is not.
- I whisper to the stars, the sunset, the rain and all of nature about you.
- I never realized how much I care for you until they told me I was leaving.
- Seven days is not long enough. I need more time with you.
- “My youth is yours” (Troye Sivan, Youth).
- There is so much I want to say to you. But I’m not sure how.
- You are poetry because poetry makes sense to me and is easier to explain.
- I write poetry about you because it helps me understand.
- I always get shy when you talk to me.
- I can’t tell you any of these things out loud. When I do, my heart races.
- I don’t know if I’m going to be able to tell you goodbye.
- I can’t look you in the eyes because I’m trying to hide a lie, but because I’m trying to hide a love.
- My thoughts are just poetry divided, and most of them are about you.
- Te amo tanto que es difícil respirar cuando pienso en ti.
- You told me you wanted to be more than friends after I leave. I hope that wasn’t a lie, because I do too.
- Please never forget me. Because I will never forget you.
- But even if you do, that’s okay.
- You are poetry, personified. I will whisper you on late nights spent thinking.
- I really hope you find away to talk to me after I leave. Because it’s hard enough when you go for a few hours, let alone forever.
- The worst, saddest sound ever is how your voice cracks when you cry.
- Every poem I create is heavy with the thought of you.
- Do you think of me as much as I think of you?
- I’m tired of being afraid of your rejection.
- I’m tired of being afraid of losing you.
- I love you, even if you don’t love yourself.
- I wish we could have more deep conversations.
- There’s so much more inside that I could say.
- Please, just talk to me.
This poem is about:
Me