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Do you hear the silent screams?
Buried within the ink?
The covers bound my cries,
but the pages let them go.
Do you see what I'm saying...?

Do you read these as only words?
Do you understand why I write?
Do you know who I am?

Have you seen what I've seen?
Felt what I've felt?
Loved who I've loved?
Are these just words to you...?

Read again.
Look deeper.
*You'll understand.
the absence of you,
is the absence
of the well-known me.
I'm as stubborn as my father,
and as paranoid as my mother.
I'm a product of my parents.
This is what they left me.
I'm begrudging and cold,
tired and impatient,
and terrified to walk alone at night.
I'm a product of my parents.
This is what they left me.
But I'm no-nonsense and selective,
and that has fared me well.
I've been forced into humility,
until humility is what I am.
And I have no eye for the temporal.
And since my mother bore me,
I sing too loud,
and love too hard.
All the while with paranoia
- but stubbornness.
Because I'm a product of my parents.
And this is what they left me.
(and it's not all that bad)
All this time, I thought home was back in my hometown
The house where I drew on the walls
The streets I'd play on and fall.
But, being this close to leaving, I know that is not my home.
It's my safe haven, my childhood.
But my parents and my brother...
That's what I'm dreading to leave.
I don't want to be somewhere starting off alone.
I want to stay with these three parts of my heart
Because if home is where the heart is
Then how can I live anywhere but here?
Have you ever felt like you deserved a thank you?
Or an apology?
Or just anything that could explain what happened?
Because I have.
There was a boy who came and sat alone everyday at lunch. I saw it and I thought "That is not right. He must come sit with us!"
Then, hell broke out between her and I... It was fixed, but honestly it wasn't. I can't sit at my table anymore because I reached out to that green eyed-blonde haired kid... I sat right next to him and I began to care about him. He met my dad. I wanted it to go somewhere.
Little did I know what his one-track mind wanted.
Little was I able to comprehend how small he saw me along the long list of girls wearing my shoes.
This is all he does, this is what they warned me of.
He's the reason I sneak my food into these walls covered in books and constant shushing.
Because he sits at the table I invited him to.
He made me feel ignorant and self-centered when really I was made his pawn.
He wanted me because he has had everyone else and couldn't have someone walking the halls who wasn't on that list of his.
He sits at my table. He sits with my friends.
But I can't stand to make eye contact with him. I'm still trying to convince him I'm over what has happened.
It's as if I'm trying to survive in this agonizing pit of never-ending drama, the perpetual unraveling of lies, actions that are caught before they are over, apologies that are screamed because they are full of remorse they were caught.
...
He sits at my table, right where he used to hold my hand while sneaking another in the chair beside him.
He sits at my table, and he talks to all my friends.
And he hurts me daily without any remorse, but every intent.
I cut my hair.
I laugh louder.
I'm changing... Well, trying.
And you're pulling me back into your gravity
Exactly what I've been waiting, hoping you'd do
But I know this is no good
We're a poison together, that's the only way we mix
You'll be the death of me.
Don't let me keep wanting to want you.
Don't fall in love with me.
I've witnessed far too many people fall in and out of love,
to believe in such a silly phrase.
I believe in that love the way a little girl believes in magic and fairytales.
All starry-eyed and fluttery.
And when you grow up, its an evident lie.
I'll believe in that "love" when wishing on stars actually works.
So don't.
Don't fall in love with me.
Instead make a choice.
Choose to love me.

The Love I do not Want,
is one revolving around feelings.
They're temporary.
Evanescent.
Fleeting.
So when they leave, love does too.
And seeing this has torn me apart.
Over and over and over.
This is what it does to you.
It screws you up.
It leaves you fragile and thin and weak.
I may be so **** uncertain as to what it is I want.
But I know,
oh I know what I do not want.
(a conclusion to the series)
I tore down the pictures of you off of my wall,
and threw them violently in a cluttered drawer.
(Notice I did not burn them.)
But I could not tear you out of my head.
I could not rip you out of my heart.
It seems as if the strings of my heart
have entangled to form your face,
or spell your name,
and to cut the threads would **** me.
You are a lethal drug -
an addiction that kills slowly and silently.
Memories of you have found their way
into the inner workings of my mind.
But there is no solace for you in the
crevices of my thoughts.
Not anymore.
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