Modern Love Story
love at first swipe
Halloween night
Have been drinking a lot
Swiped right on the app
He’s coming over now
***
Red shirt
Dark hair
Blue jeans
Something’s in the air
***
If you ask
I already know
He’s the one
I don’t have to look anymore.
***
Love at first sight
It was not
I fell in love
Way before that
***
The swipe
The text
The first time
We have met
***
The kiss
Our first night
The morning
just me in your arms.
***
All the other stuff
So unnecessary
With you by my side
life isn’t so scary.
***
First trip
First fight
First week without you
just didn’t feel right.
***
Memory after memory
Moment after moment
You said ‘fuck it’
Got on your knee
And proposed out of nowhere
***
No rings
No wedding
All this stuff
So unnecessary
***
Thank you
I love you
Have a good day
I’ll miss you
***
Simple words
Make all the difference
That’s what being in love with you feels
Simple and different
***
No fancy cars
No expensive dinners
No tickets to Japan
No picket fence within a year
***
All this stuff
So unnecessary
From the first sight
I knew who I was gonna marry.
About the Creator
Martyna Dearing
Martyna Dearing joined vocal right after COVID started in April 2020. Since then she got a few Top Stories, republished her book "Green Card Marriage", and self-published a book of poems titled "Loved, Death, and In Between".
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