IS YOUR PRIDE STRONGER THAN LOVE?

At 2:00 AM,
Was when I watched her.
Sleepless,
Wanting to text him
Lonely she felt,
I could have sworn she was so close.
She had reached his profile,
Made up her mind to clear her head
As she had gotten there
Something changed her mind,
It wasn't a person,
Neither a thing.
It was a feeling
She hadn't realized it sooner.
He had also reached her profile
Determined to tell her how he couldn't live without her.
How he had missed her lips,
How he craved her
And missed her sunset smiles,
But he couldn't either
His fingers couldn't move with his heart.
He had lost his rhythm
And no sooner as he looked at her picture
And realized he couldn't
He also knew this was just a feeling
And that feeling,
That feeling that couldn't make them admit how much they wanted to be together.
The acidic taste in their tongue that felt so bitter was pride.
Not allowing two star crossed lovers
Cross path again.
All because pride seemed bigger
than the both of them.
And lonely they became
And slowly they drifted
Until they became strangers.
Forced to let go of a story,
That everyone had gathered to listen to before.
At 2:00 AM,
They crawled back to sleep
With the empty feeling of knowing they would probably never talk again.
Clutching their hands to their heart,
Pride was indeed stronger than their love.


-Chioma.M🌺✨