Manic Pixie Real Girl

Manic Pixie Dream Girl - that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures. (Term coined by film critic Nathan Rabin)

There is a thing
A Manic Pixie Dream Girl thing
That exists in our minds
Well some of our minds

She is beautiful
She is perfect
She completes us
Right?

Or is she just a figment
A creation
Dropped into our lives through art
To teach us?

Or is there another form
A Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the real world
Could she exist?
Maybe, but we should not spend lives searching

A Manic Pixie Real Girl
She exists
I've known her to exist
In my life right now

She is a Real Girl
But does my imagination
Accentuate her attributes
Or is this feeling all reality

I like her
Yes
But my feelings feel quite
Contradictory

I want her
But I don't

I need her
But I don't

I love her
But I don't

I don't know how to express it
How she makes me feel, see, live, inspired
I love her, but I don't
A continuous battle through the turmoil

Is she in my life merely to help
To break me through this slump
To get me back up on my feet?

Or am I reading too far into this
This literary device
That has left the fictional world to interfere in my life

I don't know
I don't know if I'll ever know
But I know she's here
My Manic Pixie Real Girl

Or not.