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Hardships (11w)Behind every picture / Of a rough sea, / Stands

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HomesickI don't belong here / and I don't mean this town I mean this earth / I'm not quite made out to be human you know?

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To Rachel"you only hug me in airports" was the last thing I heard her say / as she opened her arms / to her eldest daughter

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HandsYour hands were your first language / and all formalities and expectations aside / I want you to whisper into my skin

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Letters I Didn't WriteDear you, I never knew my bones could ache before I met you, in fact I didn't even know bones could ache at all this might be a medical condition, but I have a feeling if I told the doctors I had the case of a broken heart they would laugh at me. / Dear you, I keep jumping up every time the door opens expecting to see your face / I mean

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March 30th 2012Our first date was spent looking at the sky and comparing the scars on our hearts. / I think I fell in love with the way your eyes lit up when looking at the clouds. / I ended up putting my secrets in the cracks of your skin, you put yours in the bottom of my lungs

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ClumsyI don't know how to tell you / I have a scar in the shape of a backwards L / from trying to paint words upon my skin

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OblivionIf I looked down on myself from above / I would look like a feverish dream / gold bleeding out of my eyes like a cracked open door

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IlluminateIf anyone told me when I was little that when I was older, / when the leaves fell down I would be so sad / I wouldn’t have watched them spiral down with such wonder.

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Not AdviceDo not write your secrets. / They can and will be used against you. Anything on paper your demons will find. / Although, demons aren’t always bad, some are just lost like you are.

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