I should sound like I don't love you

~I should sound like I don't love you but my fingers just can't get it right~
          written by ~Minja~

The air is musty from the rain
and my piano cries low notes
for you.

I try to change the keys once more
but my fingers refuse to hear
my thoughts.

It is not the first time they broke
over minor chords, cigarettes
and past.

It shouldn't be this way, I say;
I should sit like a lady on
this bench

and you should applaud my attempts
to show how little it takes to
see me.

Instead, you say I'm a burden,
a little too much for your taste.
I am.

~~

I am also a small cottage
in the hills of Skagway where you
kissed me,

a frenzied heart in your weak chest,
singing tunes of love just for
my ears.
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Line Count: 24
Form: Synchronicity (The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related.). This form consists of eight three-line stanzas in a syllable pattern of 8/8/2. This poetry type has no rhyme and is written in the first person with a twist. The twist is to be revealed within the last two stanzas.

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