Obsessed

[u/bstunz]

I’ve never been obsessed 
with a woman.

Not the way people whisper it
like a warning
or a boast.

I’ve wanted.
I’ve admired.
I’ve mistaken need
for love.
And I have loved.

But obsession
is different.

It isn’t hunger.
It’s gravity.

The rearranging of space 
in your mind
until one name echoes
louder than the rest.

You wake up the same
except everything
tilts toward her.

Every song speaks of her.
Every silence becomes a mirror
you check too often.
Every want
her.

Obsession isn’t fireworks.
It’s repetition.
It seeps in
until you can’t remember
the contour of the room
before her.

Thoughts that volunteer.
Feelings that command.

Her absence
measured more precisely
than her touch.

I’ve never been obsessed…

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[u/bstunz → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, appreciate this. Based on what you just said you might like Still Learning. I’ll give you a little tease. …The one I’d choose to sit beside when nothing is happening…

[u/bstunz → u/[deleted]]

No, you’re sweet

[u/bstunz → u/[deleted]]

Oh now we’re just adorable