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I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.

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The rain reminds me of his voice, a perfectly composed melody in the sky. Each drop that falls against my window, a dedication to the oceans I would cross – just to sit beside him.
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Himself Myself Perfection Rain Reminder Voice
My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
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Burn Hesitate Silence Stay Talk Throat
Don’t waste your words on me, your face speaks in volumes that your breath could never reach.
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Breathe Face Reach Waste Word
Maybe this time I choose ignorance, because giving began to feel like losing – repairing a house from rubble, and making sandcastles with the ash.
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Beginning Choice Home Ignorance Time
Her body may lay on your sheets, but my name sits softly on your lips.
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Body Lips Name Softness
And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
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End Money Willing Worth
I read that good things take time – but one look at him, and I knew I could never love someone more.
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Goodness Love Myself Read Time
What use is sleep, when reality is more beautiful than my dreams could ever muster?
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Beautiful Dreams Love Reality Sleep
I fill the shadow of the girl you want, a placeholder to the one I know you’d rather – I’ll do for now, but not forever.
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Filling Forever Myself Shadow
Building a fire from a ash, what did I expect?
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Build Expectation Fire Myself
A full glass for an empty heart – the temporary bandage for a fatal would.
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Bandage Fatal Heart Temporary
Leaves dance on twisted arms, swaying on the breeze as though choreographed by unseen hands. Even the faithless could find themselves converts, by the smell of dampened earth and its blossoming rose.
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Blossom Dance Earth Faith Hands Leave Rose Twist
A dishonor greater than any affair, is that of a friend who never was.
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Affair Friendship Greatness
The leaves know when to let go – if only I had the same instinct.
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Instinct Known Leave Let Go
Spirits dance on a velvet night, the sky it’s deepest black. In restless sleep and twisted dreams, they find themselves alive.
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Alive Black Dance Dreams Night Spirit
I sit by the sea wall, willing the waves to stay. Pulling away with gentle abandon – they avenge me for doing the same.
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Abandonment Myself Sea Stay Wall Wave

I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.

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