Slow Replies then No Replies

Flowing conversation

Funny

Sounding pretty breezy

Nothing over urgent cos I’m cool

I’ll take it easy

Insouciance or ignorance

For some reason the spark dies

I'd barely even noticed it 

Then slow replies then no replies

Something I don’t realise 

Then slow replies then no replies

Ask an open question

Reignite the conversation

Probably imagining

The growing hesitation

It’s your job to be interesting

Be erudite

Be funny

Send pictures of your purchases

She might go for your money

Thinking back, that joke you cracked

Maybe apologise

Or clarify the context

God

Those slow replies then no replies

sure know how to paralyse

them slow replies then no replies

Get all hot and bothered

Red

Insane conclusions fill the head

Her phone got nicked

Perhaps she’s dead

I check my phone

Increasing dread

Misunderstood, my tone misread

I’m stressed I over analyse

Them slow replies then no replies

Those girls can sure demoralise 

With slow replies then no replies

Send another message

try to make it unassuming

Sounding like I’m joking

When in fact I’m fucking fuming

Stare into the hole I dug

Hoping it might swallow me up

I see her posting pictures

With one of those hipster art guys

You must be fucking joking, right?

With all those maybe next week lies

It all comes crashing down and dies

The slow replies then no replies

All the whens and wonder whys

Then slow replies then no replies

Slow replies then no replies

Slow replies then no replies

Wake up feeling positive

Like maybe I misread it

Worth another shot at it

Then maybe I’ll forget it