Oblivious

We texted, FaceTimed, and laughed all day

Laughing over things we thought made no sense

Our bond was so strong that I couldn’t see it fade

And when I look out in my yard, I see you built a new fence

We can either combine our yards

Or you build a plastic fence

After I dropped my last defense

…

We can either keep drifting apart

Or we let go and go to war

The worst part is you spoke no more

So tell me now, or don’t

You may as well be oblivious

But it’s even harder if you don’t know

How our silence keeps repeating

So yell at me, or don’t

…

But I want you to so I’m not oblivious

To the words you never spoke

We would always playfully shove each other in the hallway for fun

Then I’d turn to look at you and you were laughing with me

Freshman year is over and I have only seen you once

You said you’d never walk out as you silently were about to leave

I can either run out to follow you

Or I let your hand loose

After you held mine in a truce

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I can keep pretending like I’m used to

Or I can walk right past you

Like your another girl I never knew

So tell me now, or don’t

You may as well be oblivious

But it’s even harder that you don’t know

How our silence keeps repeating

So yell at me, or don’t

…

But I want you to so I’m not oblivious

To the truth behind it all

So, I told you every thing about me

I guess this is where it all leads

My guilt, pain, and remedies

The one person I once felt safe uncovering

Now, I won’t open up

To anybody since I left

I just don’t want to interrupt

Everything you never said

Even in my dreams, you misread

So I say “I have myself instead”

In the meantime I’ll be my own friend

So tell me now, or don’t

You may as well be oblivious

But it’s even harder if you don’t know

How our silence keeps repeating

So yell at me, or don’t

…

But I want you to so I’m not oblivious

To the reason that you let go