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nikki-de-leon
The night you left, I slept for 3 hours and 21 minutes Which was no use Every hour, I woke up Praying that it was a bad dream Hoping that you were still there Shutting my eyes Accepting again and again That you were never coming back There was some sort of comfort in that I wouldn't have known what to do If we ever crossed paths 6 months have passed, and I’m still stuck With the deafening silence you left behind With the meaningless words you said With the heavy secrets I swore not to tell With the thought of who I thought you were With the truth of who you really turned out to be Stuck with you You’re 1,769 miles away and yet I can still feel you everywhere I go A ghost trailing me, watching my every step Waiting for me to break down Waiting to whisper “You still need me” - I used to check my phone every 5 minutes Glimpsing to see if you left me a message Not out of concern, but out of habit And old habits die hard Now I only check my phone to look at the time Someone once told me that time heals all wounds They obviously haven’t met you Because no matter how long it’s been Time will never be able to heal the wound That you left behind after you said goodbye To me, to us 9 months, 20 days, and 1,769 miles ago
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 6:01 AM UTC
Codependency
Fireworks never frightened me When I was younger, I used to reach up to the sky Hoping that I could somehow catch them I guess it worked somehow The sparks made their way into my veins Igniting everything they touched I soon embodied fire It spewed out of me during arguments Burned down all my bridges It was my armor, my protection Until it engulfed the people I loved In flames not even I could extinguish One by one they left And for the first time in history Fire transformed into water Now, instead of an inferno There is a flood Instead of sparks There is rain Instead of burns Everyone is drowning I will never be the person they want me to be I am either too much Or never enough
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
Elements
Every story has a beginning, middle, and end Not particularly in that order I found our end somewhere in the middle But I chose to ignore the danger signs Now I'm left on the road, bruised and scarred All because you didn't know which way to go And I didn't bother to ask for directions
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 4:22 AM UTC
Crossroads
Sometimes I like to believe that all the pain is gone That what happened was just a paper cut That everything would go back to normal That I'm okay That I'm over it Then there are mornings like today When I still have a bitter aftertaste in my mouth For a long time I thought it was my coffee But my coffee isn't as bitter As the words you had led me to say
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 7:19 AM UTC
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