I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
MIRA R. ARIDII’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
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I’ve always had a fear of endings, but it comes as relief to me that among all the dying things, I am one too.
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Where once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.
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No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.
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Of all the lies I’ve lived, and all the lies I’ve been told, the lies I told myself hurt the most.
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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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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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This year, I will let grief walk by my side, but I will lead the way.
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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.
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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You float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m only a drop in your ocean and the waves will soon carry me away.
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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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We reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.
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I close my eyes and I see you. I open them, and I’m blind.
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I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.
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You touch me and a thousand different particles come alive beneath my skin.
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How is it that we mourn the shattered pieces of the love we willingly broke?
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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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And it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.
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It was always your dreams we focused on, you never thought I’d have dreams too.
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We preserve their places in our hearts depending on the way they leave them.
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When she laughs, her soul floats outside her body and I can touch it.
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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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Lay your head on mine and let me breathe you instead of air.
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