Expiry Date

 

You adore me today

You ask me to stay

We share a glance

lost in our happy little trance

We grin and talk nonstop

but while you gaze at me, I wait for the other shoe to drop

My happiness is always short-lived,

I am just waiting for the switch to flip

When your smiles will turn into sighs

your gaze into rolling eyes

The more time we spend

the more your patience will be spent

It's not your cross to bear, it's mine

It's the fault of my own design

It's one that I have fallen prey to before

The things you like now will soon annoy you to your core

The glances will turn sad

You won't remember the happy times we had

Just the dissatisfaction of my being

and all the times we spent disagreeing

We will slowly stop seeking the other out

With more complaints than we can count

The air will turn stale with the words that were left unsaid

I will stand and watch you leave

on the road, I have seen others seek

without much of a back glance at me

I wait for that day

preparing myself in vain

thinking that it will hurt less

if I just suppress

the joy I have with you today

The foolishness I bear

thinking that you will care

but I am just a toy in your hands

Shiny and new, dancing at your commands

something that's played with at will

till it will snap and break from within

soon to be exchanged with something better and new

but, my ability to be replaced is something I already knew

Still, I look at you with a smile

treasuring the twinkle in your eyes

knowing that you adore me today

You are asking me to stay

I will nod in your embrace and grin

waiting for the countdown to begin

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