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It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love.

Lang Leav

I’m the one having to pander to you. I’m sick of being the one doing all the chasing. I’m not asking you to make me a priority – I know you’ve got a lot going on. But at least meet me halfway.
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Chase Myself Priority Sick Value
But how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?
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Himself Limitation Stop
She would fondly call him her Frankenstein, this man who was a patchwork of all the things she had ever longed for.
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Herself Man Patch Work
I look for you, the way I was taught to look both ways when crossing the road. Uptight and wary, bracing myself for something I know could break me.
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Break Known Myself Teaching Way
The time may not be prime for us, though you are a special person. We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock, in unison.
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Clock Different Person Prime Time Yourself
Sometimes I am caught between poetry and prose, like two lovers I can’t decide between. Prose says to me, let’s build something long and lasting. Poetry takes me by the hand, and whispers, come with me, let’s get lost for awhile.
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Hands Lost Lover Myself Poetry
That’s the thing about happiness. It doesn’t require justification.
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Happiness Justification
Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.
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Dimension Imagination Mindset Ourselves Pick Scars World
The greatest heartache comes from loving another soul, they said, beyond reason, beyond doubt, with no hope of salvation.
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Heart Broken Hope Intense Love Relationship Salvation Soul
We all have moments of darkness, moments when we are so unlike ourselves. And like vultures they wait for a slip, a misstep, then they take that part of us and try to convince the world that is all we are.
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Darkness Moments Ourselves Vulture World
Strange how it mattered so much, when now it matters so little.
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Important Strange Value
Sometimes the loneliest place to be is in love.
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Lonely Love Place Time
I loved you more than love was allowed.
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Allow Excess I Love You Myself
I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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Build Leave Mess Myself Wall
Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.
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Name See Time Voice Yourself
You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.
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Growth Love Purpose Save Yourself

It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love.

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It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love.

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