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Alice Aug 2020
I tried to write a poem for you.
I tried to put it in words.
but the only thing I can think to say is

I love you. and
Thank you.
you're the only thing I know is real
Alice Aug 2020
but darling,
I told you I was not easy to love

did you tire of my honesty?
I knew you would leave from the start
Alice Aug 2020
She carves craters in her skin
hoping the light
she so desperately wants
to find
will spill out.
there is moonlight
trapped
inside of her
begging
to be set free
she can’t help but try
to reach it
Alice Aug 2020
I fall back into you
so easily
if we
were never meant to be
then why are you
my home
you make it make sense
Alice Aug 2020
so badly I wish to be poetic
I drink my tea in the moonlight
take evening strolls in the rain

I bring a tattered notepad with me
to the café
to the museums
I choose my words so carefully

But I'm sitting alone,
at three in the morning
writing this "poem"

and I don't feel poetic at all
it all feels like a lie
Alice Jul 2020
imagine wasting three years of your life
on someone who leaves your most
vulnerable and fragile emotions on
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Alice Jul 2020
and it just hurts ya know? I wanted to be that person for you
I wanted everything to be okay.
there was a time and a place for us and I know that now but it doesn't stop me from wanting you
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