Poems for the Signs

by Michaela Angemeer

i thought i would always love you but while i was standing in the sun you kept looking for shade the more i nourished the more you withered i tried to make us last longer emptied my cup to fill up yours until i learned that there’s no point in watering something that doesn’t want to grow

i grew up with conditional love and frozen food no wonder nourishment feels abnormal

maybe they knew they were holding you back

i have written the first line of one hundred poems but then i stop is it writer’s block or can i say everything i need to in six words