New Year, Same Feelings

Once I told you I loved you,

As we were gazing at the NYE fireworks,

You looked stunned and chose not

To speak to me for the rest of that night.

Tonight is NYE again, we are all anticipating

The fireworks to start.

My partner is ready with his phone

To take videos of the fireworks,

Oblivious to the fireworks

Happening within me.

Yours is drinking what she swore

Was going to be her last drink,

Oblivious to the fact

That you have remained sober

Tonight of all nights.

When the fireworks started,

All their eyes were fixated on the night sky,

Ours were fixed on each other's.

Someone then decided to play

'Last Christmas' by George Michael

So loud, and no one found it weird.

I guess when everyone was that drunk

Anything goes.

We didn't get a chance to speak

To each other without our partners

Attached to our sides.

They feel threatened.

Although we assured them

It's all in the past now,

They have reasons to believe it's not.

Honestly, if we were them?

We'd be suspicious too.