Beneath skylight-fractured summer sunbeams
Our dark black eyes decided to meet
One day you'll leave this university
To spend 90% of your time performing surgery
Just your one single life will save 1000s more
It's what you're stuck here studying for
Retaking a test in the exam room suite
Right across the hall, where I can see
A quick glance and smile I know to mean
We've both dreamt the same cute daydream
But when the beats of our scene do cease
And you're another surgeon in need of sleep
Will the marble hallway's July sheen
Be the key light staged in your memory
Of precious nothings shared with me
When our ink-stained irises decided to meet *
** (All that to say, I really hope when you put that white coat on, officially, you will--sometimes, at least--have fond memories of me when you were in your third year of medical school, and I knew you only as an MS3.)
Contextual Commentary by the Poet
She was actually an MS1. And it wasn't that serious. We shared a few smiles, and I just wondered if she'd remember. I was also in love with someone else in the vicinity who'd recently hurt me. I wrote this and posted it on social media to make her jealous. Not my proudest moment, but if you're going to screw someone over, don't do it to an artist unless you wanna end up as a pile of words.
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