Cognomen Collodi

Call me Geppetto

Trying desperately to bring you to reality.

Designing in my mind

Scenarios I wasn’t in, conversations I never had

Moments we never shared.

Working until my hands are splintered

Praying to whatever god or fairy will listen

Not to create perfection, but just… for anything at all

Anything for me to call mine.

Because I thought that was you

But you were never real.