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Numb leg, numb heart

Heartbreak fell into my lap

By LunePublished 2 years ago 1 min read
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Photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-smiling-woman-sitting-on-the-man-s-lap-5933273/

Sitting on my lap,

she turned to me and said,

“This is not gonna work out.”

My leg had been numb

for the last ten minutes,

and she was probably sore;

a change in seating arrangements

was more than welcome.

One look at her face, though,

made me realize

she was bringing up

a different kind of discomfort.

Her smile disappeared faster than my wit,

and her forlorn eyes vanquished all my words

from existence.

I never saw it coming.

All I could ask was

“Why?”

I do not remember much of what she said after,

but throughout that painful conversation,

riddled with melancholy

and a touch of star-crossed misfortune,

everything changed,

apart from one little thing:

she was still seated on my lap.

A numb heart,

an even number leg.

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About the Creator

Lune

I write about anything and everything that I think is interesting...so I really don't have a niche. That is a bad thing, or so I've been told. Check out my other works here: lune1.medium.com

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  • Wm Kucera 2 years ago

    Keep up the good work!

  • Sierra Mafield2 years ago

    Oh my gosh I like this, too. I love how much you pack into your poems with such few words!

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