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.
MIRA R. ARIDIWe preserve their places in our hearts depending on the way they leave them.
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A year has passed, and even after all that has changed, I know one thing hasn’t. I still want you.
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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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And it scares me that if I ever get my wings, I might not know where to fly to.
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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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You float underneath my eyelids – a dream I never seem to get enough of.
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Where once there were a few houses between us, now there are seas.
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I’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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Maybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.
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I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
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You feed me poison in a spoon of gold and I always ask for more.
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I taught myself the art of forgetfulness. If they were meant to be remembered, they would have stayed.
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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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And when you win all wars of life, there will remain the one you must lose. Time.
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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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