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there’s a delhi boy, somewhere out there i like to to think that he is the physical embodiment of opposite day because when push him away, he pulls me back when i tell him i hate him, he says he loves me and when i say i want to leave and im halfway to leaving through the door, he grabs my arm, pulls me back, and gently says, “this is YOUR house, you can’t leave YOUR OWN house. you’re being ridiculous. also where do you keep the mayo?” there’s a delhi boy, somewhere out there and he’s pretty **** wild when i say wild, i dont mean he lives like every day is his last i mean he’s wild enough to believe there will always be a tomorrow and don’t get me wrong, im not saying that like it’s a bad thing because when i tell him i won’t survive that night somehow his tomorrow-ness always helps me make it to the sunrise you see, he’s the first boy i haven’t scared away with my tendency to want to die no, it’s much more than that in fact he plants entire fields of flowers for me instead of picking a few to put on my to-be casket like everyone else does he writes to me with the flower stems and makes me feel like im the backbone of all his sentences even though im more a sentence fragment, missing conjunctions, is that a misspelling of because? kinda gal he likes to edit, but he never takes credit for fixing me you see, writer’s block becomes a hollow garden full of red ikea flowers shrouded in my guts when i think of him because it’s not that i don’t know what to say its that i have so much to say all at once because he is so much of everything good i did not know i deserved for the distance between us not to hurt the closest thing I have to an accepted prayer as someone that doesn’t really believe in soulmates, I mean can you even objectively define a soulmate? even if you could, what is the statistical probability that your soulmate isn’t dead? i guess he can be unfamiliar territory because im so used to people tearing off the parts of me they need and hes the first one to ever say he would not let any part of me go theres a delhi boy out there and i hope he knows that he always has a home in my notebooks because my writing comes from my heart and he has mine i hope he knows that he fits in between the lines of my poems better than the spaces of our fingers when im holding his hand and after heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak he is my first healing
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Sep 10, 2017
Sep 10, 2017 at 2:29 AM UTC
delhi boy
there’s a delhi boy, somewhere out there i like to to think that he is the physical embodiment of opposite day because when push him away, he pulls me back when i tell him i hate him, he says he loves me and when i say i want to leave and im halfway to leaving through the door, he grabs my arm, pulls me back, and gently says, “this is YOUR house, you can’t leave YOUR OWN house. you’re being ridiculous. also where do you keep the mayo?” there’s a delhi boy, somewhere out there and he’s pretty **** wild when i say wild, i dont mean he lives like every day is his last i mean he’s wild enough to believe there will always be a tomorrow and don’t get me wrong, im not saying that like it’s a bad thing because when i tell him i won’t survive that night somehow his tomorrow-ness always helps me make it to the sunrise you see, he’s the first boy i haven’t scared away with my tendency to want to die no, it’s much more than that in fact he plants entire fields of flowers for me instead of picking a few to put on my to-be casket like everyone else does he writes to me with the flower stems and makes me feel like im the backbone of all his sentences even though im more a sentence fragment, missing conjunctions, is that a misspelling of because? kinda gal he likes to edit, but he never takes credit for fixing me you see, writer’s block becomes a hollow garden full of red ikea flowers shrouded in my guts when i think of him because it’s not that i don’t know what to say its that i have so much to say all at once because he is so much of everything good i did not know i deserved for the distance between us not to hurt the closest thing I have to an accepted prayer as someone that doesn’t really believe in soulmates, I mean can you even objectively define a soulmate? even if you could, what is the statistical probability that your soulmate isn’t dead? i guess he can be unfamiliar territory because im so used to people tearing off the parts of me they need and hes the first one to ever say he would not let any part of me go theres a delhi boy out there and i hope he knows that he always has a home in my notebooks because my writing comes from my heart and he has mine i hope he knows that he fits in between the lines of my poems better than the spaces of our fingers when im holding his hand and after heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak he is my first healing
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Sep 10, 2017
Sep 10, 2017 at 2:29 AM UTC
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