Rhinestone Heart

You walked in wearing leather,

you walked in like a flame

I knew right then I'd write a hundred power ballads with your

name I don't do subtle feelings,

baby,

I do them BIG my heart's a rhinestone,

baby, it catches every light you give

Rhinestone heart!

Shining just for you!

Rhinestone heart!

Everything I do, I do it loud,

I do it true! (ooh-yeah!)

Nothing can dim this heart,

nothing can shake this radiant,

unbreakable— you texted back "k." Just the letter K.

No period, even.

Just K.

I sent a whole paragraph!

I sent a METAPHOR!

I compared your eyes

to a sunset over a drive-in movie theater,

which took me

TWENTY MINUTES to get right

and I got "k" back.

Lowercase.

I've been staring at this "k"

for forty-five minutes trying to figure out

if it's a happy k

or a done-with-me k (ahhh...)

I showed my bandmate the text and he just went

"oh no"

and wouldn't elaborate

I don't know what "oh no" means either,

everyone's just giving me one-word non-answers and I

can't take it

Maybe I should've just said "hey,

you looked nice tonight" like a normal person,

not a sunset metaphor essay but I don't KNOW how to do

normal,

I only know how to do rhinestone,

I only know how to do too much,

always

Rhinestone heart... just rhinestone...

should I text back "k" too,

as like, a power move...