madeline-may-1Whisper

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song of myselfI. / Identity? / For so long, I've felt like I had none.
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Jan 15, 2015
two hundred and seventy seventhere is water in my lungs, darling / I'm choking, suffocating / my face is beginning to match the sky and
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Oct 4, 2014
jailbirdI hate the way I refer to him and "you" and you as "him" / I hate the way the passage of a year means nothing to my aching heart and / I hate the way the thought of her lips that are too thin and her eyes that are too dark and her hair that is too long is what he's chosen for three hundred and sixty seven days because I hate the way she told you you didn't love me the day you called me to tell me they told you what love was and I hate the way that I will always fall back into you and the jail cell that traps me between your ribs
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Jul 13, 2014
glassI'd rather be the shattered mess of glass / strewn across the floor / of every hallway in your house
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Mar 27, 2014
you told me not to apologize III'll never apologize for my love to you / but I'll tell you I'm sorry it took so long / please don't tell me how long you cried
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Mar 19, 2014
drown [i know it's right now because]I promised myself / That if you were to drown / That I'd go down with you
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Mar 11, 2014
danielYou were my summer love / Kisses in the bus loop / And sweaty palms in July
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Mar 11, 2014
styrofoam coffee cupit was stale bubblegum / it was a bouquet of paper flowers / it was my favorite latte in a styrofoam coffee cup
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Nov 20, 2013
cadenceit's three months later / and the tune of our love / still echoes through the labyrinth
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Nov 9, 2013
timebut i wish time spoke in more of a vernacular / and less of a riddle
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Sep 14, 2013
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