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struggle
numb & callused to my sin / i close my eyes & relent again / refuse to feel your tears on my face / ‘cause all feeling has faded away / & i’m lying so close to death / struggle is a sign of...
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ruin
o my innocence, why is this becoming ruin sent, sent to me / o my eyes, why do you persist to turn away from the things you’ve become / o my head, why do you refuse to confess, & take the blame for...
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a fool’s proposition
i seek you only when it’s easy / & refuse to humble all of myself before your feet / i call your name only when i’m bleeding / when you demand commitment, i offer you nothing / foolishly, i...
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precious girl i
apologies ending in curses, memories fixed with matches / photographs mean nothing, & you mean less / my tears become an acid that drip on your grin / exchanged best intentions for regret /...
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precious girl ii
precious girl, will i still be dead in your eyes tomorrow? / would another night change anything at all? / i swear it’s already the third day / or is time twisted in my head like the crown still...
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precious girl iii
precious girl, my greatest failure / our grave is shallow, but i’ll dig it deeper / your face is white within my closed eyes / i won’t wait ’til i can’t remember / an unmarked stone only says ‘for the...
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little boy
i cherish these moments you pursue my heart, even after your knees have bled. i cherish your chest, and how it leaves you desperate for my strength. i cherish your hands. i know it aches to make them...
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as if (part v)
Filed under: do not leave me fallen Tagged: 2013, little girl, poetry, spoken
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untitled
i miss you, but if i were to write those words, would they be anything more than ink i’d have wasted / if my eyes found your own, would they be met by anything more than vacancy as you’d turn your head...
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as you left
you were never practice, but it’s hell knowing i made you less than you are / as your lips press his, i guess i was just practice, & i’m left to kiss that scar / i know my sins better than anyone...
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tomorrow (twenty-three years after you first opened your eyes)
tomorrow, twenty three years after you first opened your eyes / three and some after my own were blessed to know their light / two years after you first closed them as our lips pressed together / a...
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hurt
i miss you, but if i were to write those words, would they be anything more than ink i’d have wasted / if my eyes found your own, would they be met by anything more than vacancy as you’d turn your head...
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little boy i
little boy, has your chest buried your heart in your hurt / have you let it decay, did it cry out as you felt as if my eyes turned / little boy, would you let your wounds form lips & curse / do you...
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little boy ii
has your heart grown hard, would you make me tear it from your chest / before you’d let go of it, are your eyes still as arrogant / have your hands held tightly, even after i left them broken / i swear...
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untitled
i cherish you, but would that be better conveyed by silence than by words / i haven’t been able to stand straight, & my hands are shaking worse / even if i could convey, by words or silence, to...
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as if
would you wear yourself out on your lusts / & then expect my pardoning hand, as if i wasn’t just / would you harbor all that robbed me of my blood / & then expect my arms, as if their veins...
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prodigal
can you hear my throat through my arrogance / do you know my heart from it’s shame / would you remove the hell from it, despite it’s sins / can you see the green in my eyes through their pain / do you...
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as you left
you were never practice, but it’s hell knowing i made you less than you are / as your lips press his, i guess i was just practice, & i’m left to kiss that scar / i know my sins better than anyone...
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cold
did you shiver as your heart became cold / did your hands shake like mine do now / you left, but my heart followed the traces in the snow / did your heart stop as you put on your ice crown / did your...
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little girl ii
little girl, i know he bruised your heart / i know he sometimes let go of my hand to take yours / & he wasn’t able to stand straight as it fell apart / i know he inflicted more damage as he tried...
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