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You understand what I’m telling you, Tommy? You have a light inside you, and the only person who gets to decide whether that light shines or not is you.

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There’s a difference between loving someone as they are whole, and wanting to see all of their pieces. I’ve understood this for a while now, and I don’t fault anyone for it.
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Difference Love Mistake Myself Pieces Understand
Somewhere along the way, she weaved herself so deeply into my veins I can’t fucking inhale without her breathing life into me.
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Along Breathe Deep Life Love Myself Relationship Way
Darkness watches me from every angle. My only friend. From its own place within the silence, it speaks to me in a strange way.
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Angle Darkness Friendship Myself Place Silence Strange Talk
You will eventually lose control, and when you do – when you lose every last shred of it until you can’t see red from black, right from wrong – I will be here. Ready to back you up, the way you should be doing for me.
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Control Lose Ready See Wrong Yourself
Pushing out a breath, I lean against the wall and slide to the floor. I sit beside her for as long as it takes. Listening until her sobs fade and the shower turns on.
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Breathe Fade Floor Herself Listening Shower
Love me like my demons do.
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Demon Love Myself
I part my lips, but no words come out. I want to cry. Want to beg. Want to scream. But mostly, I want to hold him until I know he’s going to be okay. Then I want him to hold me until I’m okay, too.
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Cry Hold On Lips Love Myself Relationship Word
But I was still weird enough that people otherwise left me alone.
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Alone Enough Myself Weird
All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.
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Cold Hard Live People Soft Tragedy Water
Instead of ignorance, I tasted what it might be like to finally be me. I didn’t give a show this time. I had no plan, no calculations. No scolding voice inside my head. For a little while, I was free.
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Calculation Freedom Head Ignorance Myself Planning Taste Time Voice
Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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Gravity Madness Myself
Before I found an outlet through sex and blood.
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Blood Myself Sex
Maybe she’d try to understand that the dark images muddled my brain until it hurt, until I had no choice but to let them out.
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Darkness Hurt Image Myself Try Understand
If you are afraid of darkness, you are afraid of your own soul.
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Afraid Darkness Philosophy Soul Wisdom Yourself
Be you. All of you. Without consequence. Without judgment.
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Be Yourself Consequence Judgement Original Self Love
We have no use for people who don’t want to be here.
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People Requirement Willing
I might have a fancy roof over my head and soap to wash away the dirt, but I’m still the same girl beneath. It’s important neither of us forget it.
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Fancy Forget Head Important Myself Wash Woman
Crawl inside this body, find me where I am most ruined – love me there.
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Body Love Myself Ruin
God, can he see what he’s doing to me.
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God Himself Myself See
You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.
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Blue Crayon Enough Myself Sky
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
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Best Darkness Method People Yourself
Doesn’t he know I want everything? And in return, I’ll give him all of me.
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Himself Love Myself Relationship Return
I quickly learned I needed someone who specifically enjoyed, or at the very least could take it, when I hit that point of blinding release. Every time, I lost all sense of the control I work so hard at maintaining.
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Control Enjoyment Hard Learning Lost Maintain Myself Quick Time
A mouse trying hard to come off as a lion.
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Animal Appearance Fake Hard Pretend
I never claimed to be a predator, but right now she’s certainly the prey.
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Animal Herself Hunt Right
My eyes shut as the fire in my lungs reaches my throat.
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Eyes Fire Hard Time Myself Reach Shut Throat
Art is a private piece of me.
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Art Myself One Liner Pieces Privacy

You understand what I’m telling you, Tommy? You have a light inside you, and the only person who gets to decide whether that light shines or not is you.

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