I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

by Halsey

Waking up and staying in bed for a couple extra hours so I can see what color your eyes are in that special light we only see at 6 a.m. That silver peeking through the cracks around your blackout shades and bouncing off your brown eyes that send me into a fully caffeinated rush. Like they’re soaked in coffee grinds

We’re in love but it’s no excuse

I searched the world to find you hiding inside me the whole damn time.

Smoke, the reminder of the fire we started?

I try to keep the riot quiet like a diet for my health.

It takes me 7 minutes to run a mile And 7 seconds to run from my problems

Change shape. Give in.

And I wondered how could I have not noticed the ways in which you dulled my senses and stole the color from the world right before my eyes. Of all the wrongs you committed, the worst was keeping me from the beauty in anything that wasn’t you.