Demetri Was a Dream of Mine

Demetri was a dream of mine--a dream designed (I think) and conjured by my soul...

In Ecuador, that summer when I ran away to find the part of me that wasn't thriving--to fix it up and make it whole.

Set amid the canopies of palm trees and the jungle’s balmy hold…

Tumbling fantasies enchanted me and into fairytales, I stumbled (and) mistook his romances for gold.

"Run away with me", (he said to me) "and you will see together we'll acquire

A kingdom--a new business--we shall build a grand empire." Oh...

Captivated by a man I thought to be an angel ✨sent to save me✨ from the waves of my depression, I turned over all my savings to construct an abstract form of heaven--though...Demetri (oh) Demetri, (he was like a reverie)...I was stuck inside a daydream and

The hands of time would show that all he'd done was lovebomb me. Demetri (oh) Demetri, (he was lovely for awhile)...and

I was like a little puppy, falling to his wit and charming smile. Every part of me above the world and soaring high...(never wondering what the fall'd be like...), once bethroned up

On cloud nine...

Never questioning his motives--I was just a foolish girl without much focus; he enchanted me and danced with me but was really just the Devil in disguise. Demetri (oh) Demetri was a dream, you see, of mine... I awoke from my distraction (I) was broke without a fraction (I) should have seen it coming, (I)... should have probably been more wise. 💔

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-Gina C. 🧚‍♀️✨

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Author's Note: This may or may not be a true story. 🥲

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This poem was written for the Dancing with Distraction Challenge. :)

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