You Need to Know That

I am in love with
the parts of your heart
that are hardest
to see.

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This Great Big World

Sitting in a circle of nearly 25

I look at the faces around me and wonder if they’ve all cried

Though their faces are blank right now

I see wrinkles from once furrowed brows

I begin to ponder what their stories are

Where they came from, what’s made them scar

And I begin to see us as more of the same

All have felt joy, and all experienced pain

So this seemingly random group of faces

Who’ve come together from all different places

We just don’t seem so different after all

Because this great big world is actually rather small

And we’re all different this we should celebrate

But haven’t we all fallen subject to the same fate?

Please, my friends, wont you do the same for me

Look in my eyes and my heart really see

Because these fronts we put on they’re rather deceptive

False facades masking the messy, dirty lives we all live

And true beauty comes through when you see what’s behind

Closed eyes, shaking hands, soul and heart you will find

Unlove Affair

You got me stuck in your love but you let it come undone,

now when I see you it knocks the wind right out of my lungs.

Summer’s sun has set and I guess that’s all that sustained us,

I’m not sure why I ever thought this could be painless.

Because they sometimes come, but they always go,

a painful lesson I have come to know.

So my heaving lungs, gasping for air,

will carry me through this unlove affair.

And I’ll say my goodbyes but I’ll see you around

for that bond we shared has been lost, not found.

But this, I beg, you will always know,

it wasn’t my choice, but yours, to let me go.

Moments to Memories

They say you never know
the value of a moment
until it becomes
a memory. I think
the same is true
of people, too.

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Don't Be Fooled

How could you think
even for a moment
that I don't think
the world of
you?

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It Must Be Madness

"It must be madness, the way we let things devour us. The way we let the things we want out, back in.

And the horror of it all is, we stay attracted to everything that hurts. We cling to it and never really learn to let go.

So perhaps we do want happiness, but we also desire to keep the pain close. Close enough to destroy us, close enough to define us, and close enough to make us feel a little less cold."

_R.M. Drake

HEARTbroken

There are the
heartbreakers
and the
heartbroken

I am the latter.

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