“Lies have speed, but truth has endurance.”
You did not lose me:
What is lost, can be found.
I don’t know what you did,
But you did not lose me.
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I think when you feel those emotions,
You are at your strongest.
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And I loved where the water showed where the light was,
Where I could give life,
And not be asked much of afterwards.
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Everyone was in love with me, but you,
I wonder why that was.
Was it because I had the life you had lost in a bet?
Was it because it made you feel good, to be excluded from the rest?
Did it make you feel good that it would only be us, standing together,
In this pond of no love?
I always said I could only love with you with my tears.
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I kind of felt like a shopkeeper:
My shift was ending,
No one had been in –
Do I go,
Or stay,
Just in case you come in?
Love is not duty, I’m throwing the towel in.
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Where you can’t prove,
You must choose
What comes natural to you.
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It made me angry,
I had questioned my own sanity,
My yellow heart,
For a —- who lived in — own world.
I took on a burden that was not mine to have,
I was living with the issue of someone else.
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I felt stupid for loving you,
But imagine having to hate, to bring someone close.
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It made me laugh, towards the end,
How someone could destroy my soul,
And cry at the truth of theirs, when their reckoning came.
Don’t f*ck with me, I burn cold.
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And when I watched the flowers on Eeshy’s heart grow,
I forgave the mud he had thrown.
When I saw the smile on her glow,
I forgave the tears he had provoked, and made flow –
Even left the hate and the judgement for him to make of his own soul.
When I saw the freedom she had created,
In the midst of battle cries and a war –
I knew she was made for this,
To be human,
To grow.
You will get past this, if you let your kindness flow. Forgive and still say no.
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I had been taught to understand and empathise,
It takes thick skin, and a heart so soft – anything else would break it.
You did what you did.
You came into my house,
My body,
And did what you did;
There’s no redemption here, let me be a lesson to you if you come looking for it.
Apologies, here, mean nothing,
Just like a kiss can’t fixed ripped skin.
You want to change?
Don’t stand here and interrupt my healing,
To fix what you broke, when you broke me:
Did your mumma not tell you,
To hurt another,
Will just eventually rip off your own skin?
You need something irretrievably broken,
To keep you moving from what’s been your nature for so long,
When the sweat creeps in.
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Intuition shows up,
Where ego, judgement and fear are not.
That’s why I know I must heal those wounds,
So they don’t get what they want.
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I’ve seen that fear, that blind panic,
In men’s eyes too many times,
When confronted with the truth.
No concern or a bowed head,
As it should have been.
You are a coward, it’s what you’ve always been.
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Let me return to my own thoughts and biases,
Issues and them all.
I’m done playing God.
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For if I had sinned before,
His pain had washed me clean.
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Imagine hating yourself so much,
You run into a trap, just to get out.
Running too close to death,
The Devil burned me with His fire this time –
and you, you took too much;
Took my breath, to feel something,
In that cavity of yours where all nerve endings are dead.
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I’ve given so much of myself,
Different places,
Dfiferent grounds,
Where the Moon goes around the Sun,
And stars can still shine against the blue.
I have so little for myself,
That I have a cave within,
That I cave into when I reach for myself.
Stretching against gravity,
Why are your arms so mean?
Please, please give it back,
You said you loved me,
But how can that be,
When you’re whole because you broke me,
Into pieces so scattered, my mind fell apart.
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I’m not sure if I’ve ever been loved:
I’ve had obsession, hate enevloped in a kiss
Held in the middle of the air, and left when I didn’t float –
Guess you forgot there’s too much life in these feet.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever been loved:
They love what I give,
And show me they love back through wanting more.
Show me you love me, by stepping back, letting me breathe,
Like you want me to live, and not leave.
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I’m in my head,
I live here,
Love here,
Work here,
Sometimes sleep doesn’t take it away,
And sometimes I just want the days to end.
I’ve forgotten what it feels like to be me,
And it was just another day of work to him.
Do you know what fear does to a girl like me?
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I loved you so much,
But who was I loving?
No one told me the dead could be living,
No one told me about the ghost in my bed, I always thought monsters were under the bed.
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If fear makes a man repent, I fear he’ll do it again.
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When I was seen, I wanted to be.
That’s what makes you different from me.
Not all bullshit is to deceive,
It’s to protect,
And then it’s just relief,
When we both see.
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It was all just a game, I know.
We were both playing too,
Maybe that’s why I felt so connected to you:
The same hurts, held in different ways.
I know if I changed the tune,
You wouldn’t mind dancing differently too.
The Pharos 