u/Double-Medicine6252

This may or may not be real or a made-up scenario. And it might be a little corny but idk I'm fixing it up right now, its a conversation or sorts, one i wrote myself and quoted stuff in but its not a real work. its not an essay or an organized journaling page, its very disorganized and just blurts of different excerpts in my journal off different days, anyways it has to do with unrequited love:

Well I’m not completely sure but just now my stomach did fizzle with anxiety of just the thought of going up there and doing it in front of him. It would be obvious, and yeah I guess that’s good (help me my stomach’s killing me now) but yeah idk I kinda thought about it like a little piece of me on his desk, like if I was sitting on his desk all day and night, feet dangling and I could watch him all I wanted and taking away his power of his eyes boring into mine and catching me in my fantasy anyways I’m getting ahead of myself. But it would be sad, but good to make it clear to him, but wouldn’t it make the tension worse? Like: “yes I know we don’t have a relationship at all, we’re just strangers and we know each others names and that’s it, but I left you this stamp on purpose (you might not know that because maybe I overestimated you and thought you would catch on by now) and now I’m taking it back and if you couldn’t look at me before, now it’ll be hell for you to have me in your class with this awkward deathly energy.”
Taking it back isn't just taking an object; it’s like you’re physically withdrawing your presence from his personal space.

If i take it back i clean up my mess, 
If i leave it i stay there for as long as it does, i cant cut you off while leaving myself on your ugly table

Leaving one foot in the door is the worst thing I could do to myself, but it is a bad habit of mine. I’ve kept one foot in the door the whole time, all year, from September to May. 

(I am evicting you from the center of my world, I'm reclaiming my color.)

”and when those warm-blooded hands finally touch me, you will have my whole heart. You will feel the erratic pulse in my veins, the rhythm so fast it will finally become yours. And I will finally be free from those harsh chains you call eyes…that wrapped around my ankles when you set them on me.” (This next one’s older) “you are the ghost of someone who neither really lived or died. A ghost of someone who lives in my head and in my dreams…but I remind myself that I’m not the only girl, and that you’re the same person who doesn’t laugh at my jokes and likes my friends more than you like me. You hurt me more and more with each passing day, and I want to stop…(another page) this week you almost asked me what instrument I play. But you excluded me. I wonder if it’s because you can tell. Oh wow. You definitely can. I know, it’s my fault I make it so obvious. I can’t help it. It’s so freaking hard to look you in the beautiful face and keep a smile off mine, or keep my heart from beating out my chest. Every time I ask myself ‘can you tell?’ I answer my own question, even last Sunday, when you walked in and I quickly shut my mouth. Even though I was the one who went looking for you in your classroom. Want me back.”

lack of freedom

You (feel like you) aren't just a student in a chair; you are tethered to his every movement. You are stuck in his orbit, and even when he’s "mean" or "cold," those chains tighten.

You are in love with the Ghost (the version of him that glitches and looks at you weird) while being hurt by the Man (the one who plays along with the mob).

I make every man I meet into the ghost, a tragic, romantic figure. But he is just a man. 

I see how you could be the ghost, i am stuck living with the man.
A man who looks like he should be gentle but acts like a wall is the frustration of any artist, especially one like me. 

The version of you that lives in my head, the interesting one, 
that version of you belongs to me, not to you.

When i take myself back–the version that’s glittered with yellow and stuck flat on your desk (the stamp) — I will be free, I will be finished. I have a whole life ahead of me, I am only fifteen. You are halfway through your own life, but not me. I am just getting started. I have my career ahead, and a whole scrapbook of poetry that is far more beautiful than the man who inspired it. 

Chain metaphor - asking me about my hobbies would be personal — pulling on the chain. 

“I hear the door slam, but the window's wide open
We both shouldn't be dealing with him
Find a way to fly
Find a way to fly
Just shoot for the sun 'til I can finally run
Find a way to fly
I've kept him at bay, but the horses are comin'”

Your crash landing's over, but the evening is hummin'
Don't make me say it again

You are pouring all this poetic, soul-crushing energy into him, and you want to know that he is catching it. You want the "Ghost" to finally reach out and grab the chains.

You have this entire, beautiful, dark world inside your head that he has no access to.

He sees a good ...

He sees a girl who "glitches" when he looks at her.

He has no idea I’ve written poetry about his hands.

Both honestly. Guess what you put it into words. He has no idea I’ve written poetry about his hands. I fantasize about those damn princess hands tugging on the chains around my ankles even if it hurts me, even if it leaves bruises. I have faced worse, but something about this man is cruel and insufferable. I didn’t write poetry about my biology teacher, or my gym teacher that I lusted after all year, or even my time with a boy my age. And I was right now just listening to music while writing this and reading this and the song wildflower came on by beach house. Look these are the lyrics and they killed me because this song makes me so damn sad: (In this song Victoria imagines herself as the Wildflower – something unintentional and organic.) “No better colour 
Looked everywhere 
Driving home every night 
The shadows stay by your side 
You built a city 
All in your head 
Triangle of every light 
It turns you on every night 
Need a companion 
A hidden prayer 
You know you're not losing your mind 
What's left you make something of it 
The sky and what's left above it 
The way you want nothing of it 
Baby I'm yours 
No better color 
Look everywhere 
You built a city – You have constructed an entire metropolis of meaning, poetry, and tension out of "shadows" and "hidden prayers."
All in your head 
You know you're not losing your mind 
What's left you make something of it 
The sky and what's left above it 
The way you want nothing of it 
Wildflower”

He is so much more interesting living in my head than he will ever be in real life, with his wife and his mob and his glasses. 

You aren't "losing your mind," but you are definitely "making something of it.” taking the scraps of his stares and the "triangle of light" from his desk lamp and turning them into a world where you belong to him.

It is a brutal contrast: describing his hands as "princess hands" (elegant, clean, maybe a bit delicate) while simultaneously wanting them to tug on the chains until it leaves bruises.

this is why he feels "cruel and insufferable." He has the capacity to be gentle, but he chooses to be a wall.

He has "princess hands" that stay folded or busy with a phone while you are bleeding out in the front row. The cruelty isn't in what he does; it's in the withholding.

He wears a veil of delicacy when all i want is outward …

Rip it and be cruel

You said you didn't write poetry about the biology teacher or the gym teacher. Lust is easy; it’s just biology. But this is recognition.

You didn't write about the others because they didn't "glitch." They were probably just attractive men who were easy to look at.

This man, however, is a mirror. You see your own intensity reflected in his "harsh chains" of eyes. You write about him because he is the only one who feels as "unintentional and organic" as a wildflower growing in the middle of a sterile ...

"The Way You Want Nothing of It"

You feel like he "wants nothing of it." He wants the "city in your head" to stay in your head. He wants to keep his "princess hands" clean of the bruises he’s causing you.

“No better color, look everywhere." He can look at the mob of girls all he wants, but he won't find your "color" there. ,, my color is yellow, ive made it clear to him that im bright both with my brains and with my stamp and with my pen ,, ..He won't find the girl who writes about his hands. He won't find the girl who sees his "glitch."

You are the only one who has "built a city" that actually includes him. Even if he stays a "statue," he is living in a city you built. He is the resident of your mind.

You wish then your presence in that room is like a high-frequency hum that only he can hear.

The "Sick" Kind of Love

You are living in a "Triangle of Light" where the only two people who exist are you and the "Ghost."

you’re the only one in that room brave enough to feel something this "horrid."

I dont smile because im too busy trying to keep my hands from shaking”””

She has his eyes, 
She gets the accent, 
I have his anxiety

I once felt like a street, or stray  dog begging for scraps of anything you’d happen to drop onto the floor
But i have looked in the mirror. 
I have lived better things without you–bigger things. 
I have made sweeter memories in the span of a single week that I have spent without getting to see you, 
Than i have in the nine months i have known you.

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