okay there's this new website at my college. it's causing quite a fuss. it is a lot like this.
people are complaining because they find it stalkerish and creepy.
but me? not at all!
unlike the FML website we have for my school,
this one allows the anonymous writer more creative freedom, and it's not just incessant bitching.
some of these are really poetic, and most of them are about love and unrequited love and there's really nothing more poetic than that.
of course, i'm a sucker for this website. i've been addicted since it's inception. i think maybe i was written about once, by the cute guy i sent the drunk message to. maybe it was him. it was obviously either me or two other girls because we're the only ones in my college who do what was stated. (i'm not getting specific; i enjoy my anonymity too) but then it said, after listing the telltale activity i'm involved in, "you're super cute. i may not have more feelings for you, but i just wanted to let you know-i saw you."
which if it is from him, it makes me swoon a little bit. if it's not, then i'm still sort of swooning. idk. =D
so as a homage to this new fantastic obsession of mine, i'm going to list a few of my favorite anonymous bits of poetry that have graced said website. enjoy! there are poets among us!
Somewhere out there
Posted at 2009-12-09 23:02:22, M spotting F
I saw you... never in my life. I want you without knowing you and I need you for my life to be worth living. Find me when I least expect you. Let my awkward soul breathe easily in your embrace.
****
Posted at 2009-12-09 17:56:29, F spotting M
I saw you... for the first time in senior year high school, and you had me from hello. Although we've been through some rough times in our relationship over the years, I have a feeling that everything is going to turn out all right for us.
Around BLANK & BLANK, I think
Posted at 2009-12-09 17:56:21, M spotting F
I saw you once, in just the right light, as I'd never seen you before... and things were never the same for me after that. I saw you smile, and all the psychological armor I've spent years building up suddenly dissipated into nowhere, inexplicably. I don't even feel the way I did anymore, but I remember the feeling, and sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if you had accepted, to be with you, to have my guard forced down all the time, to be able to achieve that state of bliss I've rarely ever known. ...Then again, I still see you, fairly often, and sometimes I think I may have dodged a bullet.
BLANK
Posted at 2009-12-09 17:30:56, F spotting M
I saw you...struggling to walk up the stairs after a round of chemo. You are the strongest person I know, and you have the heart of an angel. What's beautiful is that you don't even know it. You deserved the Rhodes, it's their loss.
Labs
Posted at 2009-12-09 17:22:33, M spotting F
I saw you... Across the hall from me at my lab. I knew I wanted you the first time I saw you. Your black braids with streaks of brown, like coffee right after it's been introduced to milk, but before it's mixed in. Your eyes so big that Atlas himself would balk at holding them. Your skin softer than the fur of an animal that your name rhymes with. Your physique would make Athena jealous. Luckily you and I are more real than any myths.
in the snow
Posted at 2009-12-09 13:55:15, M spotting F
I saw you... On the wintery banks, your freckles illuminated by the snowy sun. You pale eyes gleamed back and the bricked buildings surrounding you... you keep me ever so faithful...
DHall
Posted at 2009-12-09 13:18:39, M spotting F
I saw you... walking into the dining hall, still looking like the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. When I see you, everything is right with the world. Your hair shimmers like golden flax. We lock eyes from across the room. When am I ever going to muster the courage to speak to you?
BLANK
Posted at 2009-12-09 04:02:32, F spotting F
I saw you...this morning in our room; I woke up to the elegant image of you quietly slipping on a flowery dress. Your fiery red curls sear into my mind an eternal picture of a woman I will never forget. We are eons apart---me in the library right now, and you probably sleeping in our room, as you somehow manage a consistent sleep schedule in this crazy, crazy world we live in. Yes, we do share cigarettes, dreams, and dresses. But let's share more time. Roommate, confidant, I miss you, lady!
Our Bed
Posted at 2009-12-09 03:04:30, M spotting F
I saw you, over three years ago, sitting next to me in a freshman week lecture, and neither of us said a word -- but I know you were thinking what I was thinking... Then I saw you from a distance, again and again, always from a distance, and wondered if you ever noticed, and if your jerk boyfriend would just disappear. Turns out you did, and he did -- it took us forever to come clean, but now I see you every day and every night. You're flawless. I'm so lucky.
Dreams and Reality
Posted at 2009-12-09 02:39:08, M spotting F
I saw you... on the train. No one else mattered. I followed you... to the square. I was nervous. I walked... around the stores. I couldn't buy you anything. I knew... that we were different. I tried not to care. I wondered... if you thought about me. I knew you did. I regretted... my timidity. I hope I change.
BLANK
Posted at 2009-12-09 02:02:42, M spotting F
I saw you... in my bed, as you looked at me with a question that you know I could not answer. Your smile belies the pain sitting behind your eyes, those baby worlds containing the untold secrets I'll never get to keep. Your hand slides down my back with a familiarity that is immediate, two strangers in an unforeseeable fate, unaware of the path we make.
^^my favorite! *swwooooooooonnnn*
Our room
Posted at 2009-12-09 00:27:55, F spotting F
I saw you...sleeping in your bed, which is conveniently located next to mine. You were breathing heavily because cold weather makes you stuffy. Your bright, orange ear plugs and gleaming retainers made you look more beautiful than ever. I then went to sleep...only two inches away from you, yet two inches too far.
Dining Hall
Posted at 2009-12-09 00:10:58, M spotting F
I saw you... at breakfast with the same guy two days in a row. Your smile had me from day one but I guess his smile has you.
okay, i made it to 501 to 510, of 731 posts. enough procrastinating.
and lastly, this one made me crack up.
Alaska
Posted at 2009-12-09 20:07:23, F spotting F
I saw you... Russia.
words are beautiful.
