Unrequited Love

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills it’s probably the most important thing in a person. – Audrey Hepburn

In between the waves of laughter
a fishing pole with bait is dangled from
the edge and here am I distracted, happy,
ready to leap, lunge like a fish for whatever morsel,
hoping too you might bite back as I leave
part of me hanging and the rest unsaid about
how sand finding its way into every crack means
far more than you appreciate.
Back at home, I switch off my phone
and pace the verandahs of my mind
to clicking cicadas and cackling cockatoos.
Stop, Stop, Stop!
-there really is no such thing as peace;
and in the mock silence
I drink in the blazing sunset.
Finally
I see.
I hear.
I know.
One push and truth sits at my feet,
wobbling like a washed up jellyfish;
painful to the touch

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Unrequited Love