Maybe this time I choose ignorance, because giving began to feel like losing – repairing a house from rubble, and making sandcastles with the ash.
M.K. STANDBYThe knot in a grain of wood, a frost covering sodden grass. Mornings warmed by the rising sun and brewing coffee – the vision of the poet.
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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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A fight of a thousand years – the smart mind and the hopeful heart.
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I wished to every fountain, prayed to every god but some futures are set in stone – so here we go again.
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In the end it’s all the same – the hearty fire or the damp earth. I pray I’m not alone.
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Painting over cracks as you watch the ceiling fall – not everything can be healed with love.
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In the pale light of a setting sun – I’ll hold your hand and promise to love you more, on the days that you forget to love yourself.
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Just tell me that it won’t be the same- that one day I won’t look at you, and only see a stranger.
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And in the end-you didn’t deserve my thoughts or my ink.
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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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The leaves know when to let go – if only I had the same instinct.
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I think the scars that you left me, they remind me you were real.
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Building a fire from a ash, what did I expect?
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The bond of friendship as tight as any lover – where shoulders carry shared burden, a devotion unmatched by any other.
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You broke me into pieces, but I took those shards and built a mosaic. I’m stronger for the fall, and more beautiful than I could have ever been with you.
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Words hold little scope, for a love that stretches far beyond the limitations of language.
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