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I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.

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Her body may lay on your sheets, but my name sits softly on your lips.
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Body Lips Name Softness
And when I imagine my home – above all else, I’ll always think of you.
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Home Imagination Thinking Yourself
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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Forget Love Hands Hold Promise Sun Yourself
My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
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Burn Hesitate Silence Stay Talk Throat
Building a fire from a ash, what did I expect?
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Build Expectation Fire Myself
I think the scars that you left me, they remind me you were real.
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Myself Reality Reminder Scars Thinking
Lies sound so sweet when they are wrapped in velvet, a luxurious deception that charms my restless spirit – and I’m forever taken by beautiful things.
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Beautiful Forever Luxury Lying Myself Sound Sweet
It started the way it always does. A broken heart, and a blank page.
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Heart Broken Page Start
The 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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Forest Perspective Poet Rising Vision
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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Goodness Love Myself Read Time
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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Abandonment Myself Sea Stay Wall Wave
Your arms around me – and for the first time in years, I feel like I am home.
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Home Intimacy Love Myself Relationship Yourself
A collection of thoughts bundled together and bound in twine – more toxic than any chemical, my very own poison.
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Collection Poison Thought Togetherness
What use is sleep, when reality is more beautiful than my dreams could ever muster?
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Beautiful Dreams Love Reality Sleep
And in the end-you didn’t deserve my thoughts or my ink.
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Break Up Deserve Heart Thinking
Maybe this time I choose ignorance, because giving began to feel like losing – repairing a house from rubble, and making sandcastles with the ash.
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Beginning Choice Home Ignorance Time

I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.

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