pretty isn't beautiful

he isn't enough because he isn't you

i have found someone different

but somehow that’s not enough

he says to me sweet nothings 

and my skin warms against his touch

but his diction, not quite strong as yours

and me without those butterflies 

that came every time i saw your name

the idea of him is tantalizing

and i try my best to fall 

yet here i am secretly praying for your voice when he calls

he is not a disappointment but yet he isn’t you

his words are not so charming

his eyes a different hue

how can that make him not enough,

not being the one who left

as he is standing before me 

a different face plays in my head

he calls me pretty and amazing

but thats not beautifully complex

this life is so unfair to me

making me yearn for you

he could be someone to me

but he cannot be you

his complexion lacks your smile

i search for you in his face

i watch him fill in where you left

i let him hold your place

i put my all in you, found a life for us to lead

the piece of me still there in you

makes him not enough for me

his hands are brisk and firm but i still think of yours

and picture them, so soft and warm, wrapped tightly around mine

his shirt smells of cologne which makes me wonder

if i could inhale the smell of you

but god why do i want your hand in mine 

or your lips against my shin

when i am being wooed and wanted by someone like him

you are not just the one who left, but the one that got away

so why then must i yearn for you over the one who is willing to stay

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[A.L.]

"He is not a disappointment but yet he isn't you" I'm so surprised you don't have reviews flooding in. This poem is amazing Taylor. It perfectly shows how you're trying to put the standards of the one that got away on every other boy. And how you still aren't recovered from him. I hope you move on and find someone even better, yes it's possible.