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Alexandria Hope Oct 2017
My lipstick's all over my face
Don't want to do this
You told me to be brave
I'll leave pieces of me in all 50 states
....instead..

Tried being perfect, tried being worth it
Tried being an outlet for plugs and giving my energy
To light broken bulbs which shattered in front of me
Even if they weren't broken, I wasn't enough to keep them lit

Netflix and chill,
You really just meant Netflix. Didn't you.
But this time I'm on the pill?
I didn't offer you my heart, I think you're being too greedy
Paying attention to my hand and the TV
I went through the trouble to disconnect my body
Why won't you just take me

See I'm tired of sleeping on my own and gazing at others' souls
When they'll never be home maybe
Just looking for baggage that goes with mine and
A temporary halfway house to stop for the night would be fine.

But my chin's red and my eyes water, my headache's screaming for my voice to be softer, I'm trying to make it right
I only wanted someone for all my life.
Alexandria Hope Sep 2017
Would you love me in a hundred ways?
In goodmornings and goodnights,
Flowers and falling ill,
together on the couch with an Xbox
And a box of Kleenex between-

Would you love me in words unsaid,
Good deeds unseen and bouts of malicious intent
forgiven. IF I could be forgiven. That you would forgive me
In each of these hundred ways you love me
But I've made a mess of us instead
Alexandria Hope Sep 2017
Missed calls and messages,
Feeling like a little kid
Always waiting for the other shoe to drop
  Sep 2017 Alexandria Hope
James Court
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
blinking from who-knows-how-far,
holding captive all our eyes,
muse for all our lullabies.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
how I wonder what you are.

Twinkle, twinkle, Milky Way,
cosmic star of cabaret,
filling up our eyes at night,
making moonlight shadows bright.
Twinkle, twinkle, Milky Way -
what a vision you display.

Twinkle, twinkle, galaxy,
often do I think of thee,
hurtling through time and space,
pirouetting in your place.
Twinkle, twinkle, galaxy -
Teach us all to be as free.
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