Love Poem: The Designer Scent of Us
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Written by: Melani Udaeta

The Designer Scent of Us

You don’t want to hear how I want you; 
You’re going to hear it anyway,
sprayed all over these perfumed pages of poetry;

You don’t want to know that 
the only fear lies inside you; 
You are the one who’s running.

You don’t want to hear that 
I’m not going anywhere; 
That now someone 
will stand beside you no matter what.

Saying so little with so many words, 
you don’t want to hear any of mine;
That would mean you’d have to face yourself
and what’s inside;

You don’t want to hear that 
it’s hard to bottle up love. 
That eventually it will win 
implode or explode 
until the fairy tale staged around us 
eventually is told;

You don’t know it but you’ve been covered 
all over in the scent of who we are
since the moment we met;
It’s designer strong,
to capture everything that we are  
together;

You don’t want to hear that 
our paths crossing was divine intervention;
That people would kill for what fell into our laps. 
You’re going to breathe that in anyway,
sprayed all over these perfumed pages of poetry.