SMALL TOWN GIRL

Why are you infusing my soul with poetry
slowly, steadily.
But this poetry is wild green,
Not pink or purple
like I'm used to.

Like many metropolitan men,
I wanted to kiss a small town girl.
But now that I am,
I don't feel so sure.

Now I miss the
suburban literary snob
type of woman.

Would I be like this
if I grew up in isolation,
reading literary works by myself?
Perhaps then I could
kiss a small town girl and be happy.

I bang on the plexi-glass walls
of my mind with my fists.
If only these walls were real glass,
I could break them.
But I built them to keep out
the rocks that the world threw at me,
and now I can't break them.

Still, I think I am falling in love with you.

Copyright ©2013 Ashi Shadow - 7/1/13 on Allison, though the parts from "Now I miss" to "I can't break them" are on me, so it's a poem on both me and Allison.
Though we've never kissed, it's just a feeling.