Amorcito — Summary

Good morning amorcito. I know it's early but I just couldn't help but sit down and write. I woke up and the first thing I thought about were your eyes. I thought of how brown they are and how that's really common, but on you my love, they're more lovely than the brightest pair of blue or the warmest pair of amber. I thought of how your left eye twitches when you laugh really hard, the kind that makes you gasp for breath. I thought of how eyes are said to be windows to the soul and how obvious my love for you must be the second you look into them. Maybe you don't need to. Maybe my love is so great that you can see it pouring out of every inch of me. It feels like that sometimes. Just at the mention of your name, my bones sing and my heart races faster than any marathon runner. My stomach does impossible flips and, despite the nausea, I can't help but be excited. It sounds dramatic. I know. But it's true and if that makes me weird then I'm the biggest clown you ever met! Finally, I thought of the most wonderful thing. I thought of the day I'll look into your extraordinary, perfectly average brown eyes and see the love I feel for you returned. My amorcito, if you understand anything in this letter I want you to understand that it's this final thought that gives me the courage to live through another day. You are my inspiration, my motivation, for all things great and small.

but it doesn't matter how many love letters i write or how much of my soul i bear ; you don't even open them before they are shredded, thrown away and i'm still pathetic enough to piece them back together and save the words i've written

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The poem is built in two halves that clash. The first is a warm, gushing letter to someone the speaker calls "amorcito." They describe waking up thinking of the person's brown eyes, which they find more beautiful than any blue or amber pair, and the way one eye twitches when the person laughs hard. Their body reacts with joy and nerves: bones that "sing," a racing heart, flipping stomach. They even joke about being a clown for feeling so much. Underneath it all is a hope that one day they'll see that love returned.

Then the final lines, in lowercase and with a flatter tone, undercut everything. The letters are never opened. They're shredded and thrown away, and the speaker still tapes the pieces back together. The title, "Ancient Artifact," fits that act of saving fragments. The mood shifts from sweet and hopeful to sad and self-aware, as the speaker admits to feeling "pathetic" while unable to let go.

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