He loves me. He loves me not. Perhaps I’m one that fate forgot. Perhaps I wasn’t made for this, to lose myself in love’s first kiss.
GEMMA IVERSENTo all those I have loved and left, please know, it wasn’t you. For though I’d not wish you bereft, this heart seeks pastures new.
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Let me show you how words can make merriment from the most bitter melancholy. How words softly spoken, can heal even the most insidious of wounds.
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I can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
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Guess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
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Rise and shine, rise and shine. Fractious hope in life divine. Rise and flicker, rise and fade. Til’ death’s clasp I can’t evade.
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And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
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You pack your whole life away as many times as I have, and it’s no more than routine. But in you I’ve found a home, more so than anywhere I’ve been.
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To all those I have loved and left, please know, it wasn’t you. For though I’d not wish you bereft, this heart seeks pastures new.
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Call me reckless, call me hopeless, say it to me, implore. Call me feckless, call me helpless, call me all those things and more. All I ask if that you heed the one good reason you’re ignored. Judge me all you like, its not you I do this for.
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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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Do I need you? No. But I want you. Like the fish seek warmer waters and the birds the brighter skies.
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A seed of suspicion. A sprout of doubt. A sapling of worry. But what an oak of strength I’ve become.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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I sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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