Your New Love

I can’t decide if I like you better

in love or out

in love you smile wide

your star hair is fussed with

your eyes shine a better blue

and your eyebrows pencil heavier

you laugh more

you sing more

you talk louder

out of love your eyes are sad

you look thinner

you look estranged

you look agitated

You yell more

You throw things around

You look at me with your

grey eyes

so similar to mine

But out of love you are

mine

Out of love you are

his

in love you are

the other’s

and I still remember when

you smiled wide for him

when your hair was fussed with

for him

when your eyes shined that better blue

for him

and I still remember

when your laugh was for me

and for tickle fights

and when your songs were

for bedtime tuck-in’s

and your loud happy voice

was for us.

and now it’s for the other

and even though you look so happy

I just can’t decide