They picked up the pieces the others had discarded.
The gathered me up tenderly, as an injured bird, and nurtured me back to health.
They showed me it’s never to late to chase your dreams.
They released me back into the world, to fly after my ambitions.
A free bird.
I keep thinking about you.
Maybe it was real.
Maybe it wasn’t.
I waited for you for such a long time, tethered to the rocks, crashing against the cruel waves.
Life was difficult, life was cold, life was suffocating – but you cut my chains and set me free.
Nevertheless, the waves were too strong, they pulled us down – life got the better of us, and we drowned.
Drunken kisses
Stolen sighs
Stay in bed with me
For all the nights
The unknown is so powerful, painful, and awakening.
The dream and reality crash, crack, and fall.
I was wrong,
I must confess,
but you my dear,
you know the rest.
I needn’t repeat
the pain of our defeat.
sickly sweet
your words were sickly sweet to me
flowing like a constant chocolate fountain
smooth and all encompassing
but the sugar made me sick
and I threw you up
Mirror mirror on the wall
who is the fairest of them all?
The image reflected back at me
is not who I wish to be.
I don’t get it.
We were quite the pair.
But sometimes life just isn’t fair.
We didn’t say our goodbyes, and for that I am sorry.
In the heat of the moment, I left without looking back.
So angry at you for betraying me.
How could you?
How could you love another woman, when all I had wanted was you?
Why did you do it?
Why did you seek out someone else to love, when I had given you my all?
That day, anger and love swirled into a stinging liquid that blinded me.
I couldn’t see.
I couldn’t see that I would miss you so much.
Now, weeks later, all I wish I could do is say goodbye.
The ambiguous nature of our relationship’s end has left me lost,
wandering through this world blind.
I wish I could say goodbye to you one last time,
maybe then I would regain my vision.
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