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you got your high school friends
a dead end job
some dreams
and someone who doesn't love you
the way you need them to

when you could've had me

i'm not on top of the world
but i am trying to grow
and that's more than you can say
for your friends or yourself
i'm already someone else

remember when i told you to leave

because you wanted me to change
submit to your needs
while you never considered mine
you wanted both sides
bad decisions and good people in your life

i waited to hear you say sorry

for the longest time
and when you did apologize
it was just too late
i grew up and didn't need it
and i couldn't believe it

you only wanted company

because you've isolated yourself
with the choices you've made
no friends no lovers no hope
you pushed me too far away
and you're trying to turn back time to fix your mistake

but its done finally

and i hope you find true happiness
i wish this didn't have to happen like this
but it did
because you couldn't see my worth
had to lose me first

i can't help you find you when i need to worry about me
 Jan 2021 nevaeh
Toothache
A touch of death,
Specimen in the back shed,
Joggers on the streets.
Seizures of cursed withering adolescents who ate the sweet pomegranate
of lust and *******,
And never came home.
Sirens at the sybaritic streamlet,
Swashbuckling seventeens and greed of fanciful adventure.
The young rebellious nature
of hopes and aspirations.
The harvester, the hunchbacked prince, the harrowing keeper of time,
Creeps like the night,
Like the stains of black ink that scurry and watch,
Who spy for the other-mother.
The exquisite expectation of an oncoming assassination,
Unsuccessful, beaten, and purged.
Burried in the soft silence of the hushing leaves,
In the swaying trees,
As the fatuous breeze follows aimlessly,
At the ankles of its maker.
The exhaustion of the tangerine technician,
At his mercury writing desk,
Pondering if he begs for the inspiration of the raven, to the very extent it drives him mad,
What is the difference?
Assembly lines, employing those who they despise.
The last humans left scoar the barren dust storm that was once the azure bliss of the promised land.
Do not ask the doctor for answers,
Simply receive his remedy and swallow.
This is how it has always been.
 Jan 2021 nevaeh
Brittany Ann
A sleepless night for an artist

is like the cry of a siren's call-

a journey through the mind

and

a deep incision into the soul.
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