Mystery

By Daisy Dai

You said you knew nothing
about me
that after three years of dating
I was still a mystery.

I tried to play catch up
telling you about the time I
threw a cup at my brother and
he had to go to the hospital.

You said I’ve told you that
story before.

I try to begin another one
and you say you don’t want
to hear my life story tonight.

We had just had a fight.

So we sit in silence with me
holding my tongue thinking,

I am in love with a man who
doesn’t even know me
who I know so well
who never made me feel
comfortable enough
to open up.