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oakley Mar 2016
You can't live like this
You can't love like this
In bursts...
They'll think you're dead
They'll bury you
Before your heart beats again
oakley Mar 2016
she didn't know how to read
but she loved to look
at page after page
of book after book
each letter was so beautiful
she decided to teach herself to read
so she could learn what each beautiful word meant
she went back to her books
after she learned every letter
but she discovered
that if you knew what those words meant
they weren't so pretty anymore.
oakley Mar 2016
i had never been the one to love more.
i had always just been picked up,
                                        swept along.
                                                            and i liked it that way.
now i'm the one doing the sweeping.
     not sweeping anyone along, though.
            sweeping everything under the rug.
   love, heartbreak, tears, aching, anger, loneliness, longing...
oakley Mar 2016
she sensed a venom in her blood
slowly killing her heartbeat.
she knew she had to fix it.
she thought that the only way
to rid her flesh of this toxin
was to cut it out.
she tried.
she failed.
she learned to live with poisoned blood
and a dead heart.
oakley Mar 2016
hindsight is 20/20..
you know that now.
you didn't have to wait though.
from the outside it was obvious
how reckless you were being.
but you were blind.
you told me to tell you next time,
but will you ever listen?
oakley Mar 2016
is it my fault that you left?
did you leave because you felt like it?
because i wasn't enough?
because you wanted to hurt me?
because you needed someone else?
or were you never there to begin with?
oakley Mar 2016
creatures made of skin and bone
were meant for wars of sticks and stones
when flesh is forced into the deep
it's soul retreats and falls asleep
and hides from what it cannot believe
from wars of fire and sky and sea
i wasn't meant to walk this path
will you face the darkness' wrath
for me?
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