Building a fire from a ash, what did I expect?
M.K. STANDBYI 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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Hollow intent and echoes affection, a call with no response. Who could trust a dormant heart – where apathy is shaped like love?
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Don’t give your heart to a poet – we see stories in a sentence and haunt you with our ink.
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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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I see the way that he is with you – holding your heart with softness he never spared for mine.
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And when I imagine my home – above all else, I’ll always think of you.
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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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Peace found me in a wordless embrace – in the rising of autumn sun, and the sound of turning pages.
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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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You are a mirage – never mine to hold. A glimering promise so tempting to chase, eternally out of reach.
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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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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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My thoughts feel like plagiarism – a feeling already felt, the words already written.
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I’m scared of mediocrity, of scribing my soul on fading pages, each destined to the fate that met those before it – gently laid to rest in a growing pile of unwanted words.
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Your arms around me – and for the first time in years, I feel like I am home.
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The smell of oak reminds me of summers spent sleeping under canvas, crackling fires and roasted coffee, the soft sound of guitar and voices in unison.
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