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My Simple Love Story
I haven’t been able to write for a while,
but today I ran in the freezing rain
without getting cold.
I sat beside you,
and…
for the first time in a long while
I didn’t feel so broken.
I saw the boy with the dark hair
and the sad eyes,
but I forgot to call him
beautiful.
I trace the lines of yesterday
admiring what used to be…

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Likewise with "but I forgot to call him beautiful." Maybe an entire poem forming this boy for the reader -- his beauty, his smile, his fingers, his skin. A poem that starts "I saw the boy with the dark hair / and the sad eyes" (I'm quite attached to that line) and give us more about him -- and then end off "but I forgot to call him / beautiful."
You have plenty of excellent lines for various poems. I feel like you should do them justice and give them the full poems they each deserve.
it's like looking at a three-leaf clover and knowing that it once had four leaves :)