I’m writing this one just for you.

I hope you see through my vain attempts

To get you to like me.

What I want is that you don’t,

So I won’t be disappointed 

When you get to know me,

And retreat like glacier patterns

On boulders toward the poles.

I’m magnetized by granite blocks,

And quartz transmitters in my heart

Continue to emit.

Even though my phone alerts me

To the fact that the message has no subject,

I continue to “send anyway?”

And there is a lovely message in here,

If you read between the lines.

I’ve encoded valentines and candy hearts

To tickle your fancy,

If you can see me beyond

The rote transmission I’m required to send,

And there beneath it all, the unrequited love.

-jenn