"It's started with a text"

It's started with a text 

Where you an ex's friend or a friends ex's? 

I couldn't care less in the moment 

Because I was careless 

Or carefree? You see 

I had reached the peak of my lonely 

As if being 21 and broken up with, wasn't enough 

10 months into the pandemic. I had given up

By then the dust of loneliness had settled 

Even on my phone screen 

I was reliving a real horror story 

That always ended with someone ghosting me

So when I sent you that text 

I had nothing to lose 

Or at least that is the excuse i gave myself 

But look where it bought us

Later that night, we were at your terrace 

Counting stars and exchanging stories 

About what's been up lately or rather down

Soon you and I were rainbows bursting 

Through this black and white town 

Shoulders brushing. Your eyes such a tease 

We were two leaves whispering in the winter breeze 

Our hearts unfurling through the quiet night 

As we lived vicariously in our borrowed time 

And so we drove 

With stardust in our throats and galaxies in our minds

You felt like a souvenir i had almost left behind 

But came back to find 

Then there was that night 

With our faces luminescent in the moonlight 

Hearts beating like a sirens, only our lips 

To cut through this silence. 

But we were too shy

So we left without a kiss goodbye 

That night i knew

If my heart broke again in two 

You can keep this part of me with you 

But the stars aligned for us in a different way 

So here we are, two friends laughing 

About that night to this day

I had forgotten what if was like

To open my heart to someone 

To feel like glimmer of connection 

And for all the praises i sing of my solitude 

Sometimes it takes two to enjoy the quiet. 

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Thank you for reading this poetry