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When it’s happiness Misery Under one roof Does it start to seem Unhealthiness Is the truth And the rest is pretentious Performative art For familial love Still Burns as bright In the heart But I broke yours And kept crushing shattered Bits smaller By echoes of some distant Fantasy caller But falling for no one else Faltering Not For a second Devotion Or vow I forgot Momentarily Meant More than words spoke aloud But by actions that happened To be Written down Pulled you down And then deeper Into “I can’t lose you” We start to play Interdependencies Cannot refuse you Emotional Beneficence Of the doubt That we could go without A more photo filled phone That without this Imperfectly Picturesque Home If the solace We still grant each other’s Proximity Still Not enough In its total sublimity Happiness Misery Both every day It’s exhausting And costing us Precious Compassion What passions We once Wore on sleeves Out of fashion And clashing into The same Impasses Reaching Conclusions Again and again Oversleeping On this is my life This is yours Make them separate Detach And decouple Hope not To regret it This happiness/misery Marriage we’re sharing Until the last day We both stop Even caring
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM UTC
Happiness/Misery
When it’s happiness Misery Under one roof Does it start to seem Unhealthiness Is the truth And the rest is pretentious Performative art For familial love Still Burns as bright In the heart But I broke yours And kept crushing shattered Bits smaller By echoes of some distant Fantasy caller But falling for no one else Faltering Not For a second Devotion Or vow I forgot Momentarily Meant More than words spoke aloud But by actions that happened To be Written down Pulled you down And then deeper Into “I can’t lose you” We start to play Interdependencies Cannot refuse you Emotional Beneficence Of the doubt That we could go without A more photo filled phone That without this Imperfectly Picturesque Home If the solace We still grant each other’s Proximity Still Not enough In its total sublimity Happiness Misery Both every day It’s exhausting And costing us Precious Compassion What passions We once Wore on sleeves Out of fashion And clashing into The same Impasses Reaching Conclusions Again and again Oversleeping On this is my life This is yours Make them separate Detach And decouple Hope not To regret it This happiness/misery Marriage we’re sharing Until the last day We both stop Even caring
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May 20
May 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM UTC
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