Love Poem: A Metaphor
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Written by: Melani Udaeta

A Metaphor

I love you like the sea licks the shore,
I love you like a taco soaking up lime;
I love you like that song on heavy rotation,
I love you like a 4x 4 with stuck wheels;

I love you like cliche verse recycled again,
I love you like a newly invented word;
I love you like the movie you never miss,
I love you like a missing piece of the vault;

I love you like the calmest sleep,
I love you like a memorized sofa snore;
I love you like accidentally burnt popcorn,
I love you like patient multiple tries;

I love you like what you truly believe in,
a phrase, a song, your intuition;
I love your scar after feeling nothing;
I love you like a metaphor.