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Found Another Fish

Why Would You Discard What You Already Have?

By Daniel Freeman Published 3 years ago 1 min read
Found Another Fish
Photo by Teryll KerrDouglas on Unsplash

Stay with one forever, never to be separated

The inner turmoils, together you’ve survived

To make that binding vow, for three years you’ve waited

At that fateful day, you’ve almost arrived

//

So why is it that you can’t keep it to just one self?

Why do you have no concept of what’s wrong and right?

After all this time, you’re thinking of selling yourself

To the first fish that crosses your line of sight?

//

Oh, but it’s just an involuntary thought

That you won’t act upon, even if you keep

Imagining claiming them as the fish you caught

When you already have one you saved from the deep

//

Just throw her back in there, why don’t you?

You don’t seem to want her anymore

What’s stopping you when you could screw

Around when you already broke what you swore

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That this would be the one, the only one you’d see

But you just had to look around and see what’s out there

They’re just a lovely f*cking sight, don’t you agree?

Then you spotted another one and just had to stare

//

And chase it while ignoring the other one’s tears

Throw it all away. Just let it desist.

You’re demolishing what you’ve built up for three years

For someone who after a day won’t even remember you exist

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About the Creator

Daniel Freeman

A friend accidentally got me into writing. Now I can't stop!

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