In Between

In Between

In between growing up and standing still.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands gently touching your face
As you close you eyes and lean in for a kiss.
I wake up, wishing you could kiss me.

In between theatre and lunch.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands sweat as I open the classroom door
I walk by you; do you know who I am?
I am not asleep, why can’t you just kiss me?

In between awkward and knowing who I am.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands type away on the computer
I’m on your page looking at your pictures.
I am alone, will you ever kiss me?

In between reality and ego.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands shake as you walk towards me
You start talking to me and we exchange numbers
Oh my God, are you going to kiss me?

In between dinner and a movie.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands are clinched in my lap.
We are sitting on a bench in the mall
You puts your hand around me, are you going to kiss me?

In between mattress and sheets.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands and your hands touch under the sheets
You tell me that you love me and everything will be fine
We have sex but you never kissed me.

In between Hall A and Hall C.
I am learning how to love and how to be loved.
My hands go up in the air as you walk towards me
You look pass me and keeps on walking by.
All I wanted was for you to kiss me.

Talisha Vernon

So Long

SO LONG

I wonder sometimes if we will ever go to the next level
Maybe not...maybe so...but I'm thinking not!
I mean I'm just wondering...Do I have to do everything.
Oh my God, you're so slow!!! Why are guys so slow?
But I just that's why I...never mind
Everyone knows my fillings for you but not you!
Whatever!
It's all fun and games...right?
It's just you, nothing special...right?
It's just high school...right?
It all doesn't matter!
It's all fair in love and war!
We don't really matter to one another.
We just happen to be in the same place at the same time.
And I guess one of us fall in love and the other one...
Well, he didn't!
Like I said, we don't really matter to one another...right?
We're a bunch of teens...trying to got thought life
And no one really matters to us.
Right?
I keep on saying that to myself!
"You didn't really matter to me!"
"You’re just a guy...a stupid stupid guy!"
But I was the stupid one.
I was the one who didn't know.
I didn't know that I can't make you love me.
And I'm so stupid! So Stupid!
Everyone knew that you didn't love me.
I don't know why it took this long for me to figure it out.


Talisha Vernon