I saw you glide around the basketball court today like the floor was made of freshly polished glass.
You didn't falter once.
You slid as easily as ball bearings across an endless marble table.
Circling & spinning & swaying & twirling.
Your dress was polka dot.
It whipped sharply in the wind.
I watched you skate until you rolled away, onto a gravel path.
Although your absence was as silent as the drifting of your blades,
As the sky went dark, I really wished you would have stayed.

I have one friend.
He is the only one who listens when I speak.
Even he grows tired sometimes.

My baby
I don't want your leftover time.
Although I am sad that you are no longer mine,
You don't know what you want, babe
And I think that's alright.
But I know that I'm worth more than your leftover time.

All this pent up anger comes from the blood
Between my thighs
Red will travel down my leg, staining skin and mind
Tears f
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               l down my peeling cheeks
As salty as the words that leak
Out of my brain
From time to time

People should not have to teach their hearts to cease beating
Or remind themselves how to breathe
It is unfair