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my greatest non-mistake

Updated: Mar 8, 2023

Rebecca SE Tan random midnight thoughts


Chapter 1

you're my greatest non-mistake

my favourite fairytale

at times i wish you knew it all

but remember that you can't


my friends tell me im lucky

to even have this feeling

to be twenty-one and wretched

by feelings i cant ignore


they say love is butterflies

messy happiness within

but my dreams have morphed to pain

of knowing but never reaching


im not looking for perfection

and you're perfect in all but one

yet i know the ending well

if we ever were to start


ive accepted my fate

of never being with

the man

i love


but my biggest problem remains

him never knowing, never realising

just how much he means to me



Chapter 2

i'd never date

i'd never date

committal issues or not

i guess i'd never date


i guess i have committal issues

of knowing, loving and reaching

the fear of going so high

only to lose it all again


i guess it's hubris to think

i know the ending of our story

but its not history that holds me back

its the near-certainty of our future


i know you're willing to take the risk

at the shot of something great

but i like us to much to gamble

the stakes of our connection


maybe though im wrong

it feels as though our friendship

is rocky as it is

too much joy

too much pain

to ever be the same


i think its easier to try

at the happiness i know we'll find

but how long more before

the eventual ending of our time?


the best love stories never happen

and im sorry you're caught up in one

the worst, most boring non-story

a rational fairytale



Chapter 3

calculating our chances

is like no other math

our E(x) is pretty high

if i value success infinitely


but our life is not theoretical

we don't get enough chances to try

what if our only attempt is failure

what value do i place?


and what then of probability?

is there a chance for us?

of course there is, i know and hope

but what value does it approach?


and what of our current state?

the value of our friendship?

then again is this a hidden

downward exponential?


yet even in y=a^x

where a is less than 1

we will eventually hit the point

(fleeting as it is)

where you could be the one

before it plateaus, never ending



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