Anti-RomCom Pop Song

  the girl that I like doesn’t like me 
  so I 
  respected her decision as an autonomous human being 
  and rejected the false promises fed to me 
  by the prevalence of stories about nerds made good who 
  waited around and around and around in the hope 
  that the girl that they liked who didn’t like them 
  would change her mind when the nerd found a way 
  to prove his love, which he would (and she would) 
  
  and so I got on with my life
  and left her to get on with hers 
  and so I got on with my life 
  and left her to get on with hers 
  the end 
  
  the girl that I like doesn’t like me 
  so I 
  rejected the inherent chattel implications 
  that paint all women as not only a prize 
  to be won or earned but invariably heterosexual 
  and left her to a life of her own determination 
  and went on to follow my own life path 
  without her, allowing myself to feel 
  regret but not anger, not stooping to allow 
  
  my sense of regret to convince me that 
  romantic relationships can ever be anything else 
  than based on mutual feelings of attraction 
  which if absent should not be taken as a sign 
  that any kind of coercion or cajoling is 
  an appropriate response to the circumstances 
  
  and so I got on with my life 
  and left her to get on with hers 
  and so I got on with my life 
  and left her to get on with hers 
  the end 
  
  the end the end the end