Toca-Discos

Alessandra Figueiredo
2 min readJan 16, 2024
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I don’t want to forget you,
To leave you in the past
Where all the broken things go

I’m trying so hard like Sisyphus do
Every day, climbing the same hill
And every night going down again
I want you, no matter how hard things get

Nothing good comes easy, I fought wars and armies
to get my friend back, to prove to him I wouldn’t go anywhere
I can fight armies for you, too
I can build a bridge to the moon,
Pick a star, it’s yours
The same way I’m too,
Even though I wait so many days to say that,
And almost lost you in the process
If I’m being honest, sometimes I think l really lost you

Hope is a dangerous thing,
Because every morning I wake up wishing for a text from you
Even though we agreed on a time apart

But, tell me, how can I be apart from you when the world around me screams your name?
When, suddenly, every song was made for us
When everything that you like, that we did together, follows me like a ghost without a purpose

I still check my messages all the time,
Hundreds of texts, none of them from you
I still wear your T-shirt, even though it doesn’t have your smell anymore
I drink more water now, in the cup you gave me because the little things are the only things left

One day I’ll wake up and I’ll not remember any of it,
The pain, the anxiety, the plea to God to let me be free or to bring you back to me
One day, I’ll be braver for the new lovers that’ll come into my life
But what I really want now, while sitting in this dark bedroom, is to scream so loud how much I adore you and how much I’m yours

I’m yours,
Without fear or uncertainty
Take me,
Please

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Alessandra Figueiredo

Storyteller, aspiring to be many things. My life is a mess. | I write in English and/or Portuguese. she/they