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Bridges and Butterflies

Your hands looked older than the rest of you

Reminded me of my grandfather's

I always thought eyes were the first to age

 

But don't worry

they were next

After the sleepless nights

"You look like a zombie kid,

Like something that should of been buried a long time ago-"

 

I never thought you would take my words so seriously

   The way you walked to class

      passed me in the hall,

        you didn't even see me

 

Because of the cloud in-front of you

          In a mist

            In a fog

               You can call it

Whatever the **** you want

 

But you were gone

And I searched through all those papers in your desk

Somewhere for an answer

But knowing you, you probably kept all those secrets in your head

Where you knew that they were safer

 

And all I want, is to satisfy this curiosity

I just want to know

Why did you have to leave?

 

Im the kind that  needs  answers

 

What was eating at you?

Gnawing at your bones?

You became a stick figure

Someone I used to know

 

What was eating at ya?'

How come no one knew?

Would you tell us now?

Could we face the truth...

 

Was it a repressed memory

  something you mentioned when we were fifteen

About an uncle in a basement built on hate

And in that tree house under the blue

  you said was where you felt safe

 

Was it when you started smoking

to calm your shaking hands

Or stopped taking pictures

Or when you joined that band?

 

  Because I swear to ******* god

you had the biggest smile I knew

The most goofiest grin

  the funniest jokes

 

And I swear to god if lose one more

I just mind end up like you too

 

"If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?"

Well why the **** would I want to keep living here

without

you

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Written by
odi
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Published
Jan 11, 2012
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