I shed skin after skin, seeking my true colors, expecting a rainbow or a stripe of black, but all I get are maps of red. We are all human underneath.
MIRA R. ARIDIYou pull away and suddenly I have more room to grow.
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If there’s anything I’ve learnt so far, it’s that to love others, you should give them space to breathe.
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When she laughs, her soul floats outside her body and I can touch it.
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I’m breathing dreams like air, like there will never be enough of them to fill up the space in my lungs.
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You’ll roam the world and come to realize: It’s all in you, to be free or not to be.
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I am grieving a connection that never really happened, a dance of souls that only lasted one day.
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I taught myself the art of forgetfulness. If they were meant to be remembered, they would have stayed.
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You say we’re nonsense together, but nothing makes more sense to me.
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You pull away and suddenly I have more room to grow.
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Lay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.
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Refrain from giving pieces of yourself to those who get close, for people leave, and gifts that are given cannot be returned.
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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Perhaps their voices never leave us and we spend our lives fumbling for quiet corners where we can hear them most.
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You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.
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It was always your dreams we focused on, you never thought I’d have dreams too.
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Nothing hurts me more than when I tell you to leave me alone, and you do.
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This is face blindness, but not really it. Among all the faces I see, I could only see yours.
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And it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.
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Where once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.
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You touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
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I wish I can still hold your hand like I used to. I wish you were still alive.
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How is it that we mourn the shattered pieces of the love we willingly broke?
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We preserve their places in our hearts depending on the way they leave them.
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You float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.
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Maybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.
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And when you win all wars of life, there will remain the one you must lose. Time.
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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