Do You Though?
by Kensley Shelton
La Vernia High School
Kensley Shelton is a junior at La Vernia High School, and plans to pursue a master's degree in aerospace engineering and an associate degree in business management. They will continue to write, whether it is poetry or a book. They enjoy writing and strive to get their first book published before they graduate. They like to write fantasy, sci-fi, and some horror.
“I love you” were the words that you spoke
And I said “Do you though?”
Making you wonder if it were merely a joke.
Those words I say,
the ones you assume out of mirth,
were born from a doubt
with an endless girth.
“I love you,” you say.
Did you mean the blues and greens of the sea
that's reflected in my eyes,
or my petulant lips,
that whisper of such sweet demise?
Did you mean my body,
with its soft curves,
or maybe my humor
that's a little bit disturbed?
Do you mean that darkness inside,
born from another's intent,
so deep and dark that just as you thought it ended,
you find it has a basement?
When you say that you love me,
and I ask what you mean,
just know that there's been history
with people whose intentions were never clean.