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(for a certain barista)

i am unrequited love
love unrequired
i am prefixed by the
privative but pivotal
particle
un-
is in unlimited supply
an endless affixation
one
i am unrequested love
sequestered
sitting unmolested
in a gondola for one
i am the bacci tight
under wrapper
i am love unreleased
i am longing unrelonged for
an endless (re)infixation
i am the unsung song un-re-sung to
the tenor has an empty house tonight
i am romance unrealised
uncut roses, unwrapped up
and all this
when i have just the right vase
you so unappreciate me you are
so unarrested by me
please move your feet
i want to sweep there
i am rose tyler i am pip
i am poor freddy hill
and i have often walked
down this street before
i am all because of you
and you are not
because of me
i am just not meant to be
i am quietly unravished
love unripening in
the unrelenting shade
- the gods called him
behind his back
eros butterfingers
he will miss the next games -
i am unnearest and undearest
i am one-way departures
and points of no return
i am inruptures
i am the name unrecollected
along with the unremarkable
rest of me
i am simply resistable
i am suffixed by the e(n)d
of what never began
for one of us
i am
and you are not

© meredi o