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Lauren Johnson Sep 2018
My life is a series of questions that come at me like a 90 mph curve ball straight to the chest, and I don’t have a bat to answer them.

If only I was a baseball player, and could decipher one pitch from the next

Because the only pitch I can knock out of the park is the question “why are you sad?”

And my home run answer is

“I don’t know”
Lauren Johnson Jul 2018
Don’t put out the fire in your lungs just because he doesn’t like the flames that pour out your lips
Lauren Johnson Jul 2018
You deserve an Oscar for the act you played
Lauren Johnson Jul 2018
I see now
That you didn’t break my heart
I broke it
When I gave it to you
And expected you to catch it
I won’t make the same mistake again
Lauren Johnson Jul 2018
I will always want the best for you.
I just wish I was the best.
Lauren Johnson Jul 2018
You can’t break her heart
It’s already broken
He carries it around with him in a jar in his back pocket
Unknowingly
Lauren Johnson Jun 2018
I wiped away your tears

When you told me you didn’t want me
I remember the night I told you
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