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 May 2015 Kyle Howard
Laura
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 May 2015 Kyle Howard
Laura
When did I become such a dead, useless thing
Alive and walking
Although as usual, hardly talking
This emptiness in the very pit of my
Stomach
Is spreading to every fiber of my inner core
I can remember the days of feeling full, feeling
Wanted
Smiles and cheers, even through adolescent fears
I was a stable, normal, wholesome being
But now it seems I’ve just whittled away
Any positive meaningful aspect of this life
Where’s the restart button?
Let me play this level over again
The options I did not pick were surely better
I'd love to give you my whole life
To make you glow, make you my wife
I'd love to buy you diamond rings
Soft silk and satin, a clock that sings
Lalique and pearls and walnut curls
A painted sea that ebbs and swirls

I'd love to have just half a chance
To watch you laugh, click heels and dance
If I could take you by the hand
We'd run barefoot on sloping sands
Where once you swam as time began
Stole birthday kisses from this man

I'd love to leap into your arms
To catch your breath, capture your charms
I'd set you free to fly forever
We'd dive and swoop and soar together
We'd own the sky, the heavens high
And every cloud that ever cried

If I could give you yesterday
We'd never find a better way
To live and love and share our dreams
To give so much until it seems
Our hopes and fears, our salty tears
Have flowed as one through all these years
 May 2015 Kyle Howard
AJ
I'm not sure what time it is.
Especially not right now.
There is no "right now".

By the time we can calculate
The exact millisecond of right now,
It's already over.
 May 2015 Kyle Howard
Adele
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 May 2015 Kyle Howard
Adele
I woke up feeling empty,

and I spent the whole day trying to find what was missing
 May 2015 Kyle Howard
Chaos
She went to the place
Where she doesn't exist
So his voice couldn't reach
Into the deep, dark abyss
So she lay in the dark
Trying hard not to feel
The pain that was roiling
It all seemed too real
How can she get better
Climb from this place
Empty the dark inside
Re-construct her face
Can't he see what he did
He broke her apart
Forced her to fall
And live in the dark
She feels all the pain
All the hurt and the stress
It's all way too much
Just one giant mess
So she goes to the place
Where she doesn't exist
And his voice doesn't reach
Into the deep, dark abyss
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