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I am your medicine, you are my poison.

I hold the negative feeling closer; I hold them like a bag filled with candy on the night of Halloween in a little boy’s arms,

I haven’t learnt that they give you cavities yet, my brain wrapped up in folds and folds of sheets made up of envy

Envy is like an old tree roots, springing from everywhere trying to get to the surface, the surface prone to erosion, is ****** into the black hole of envy

I can’t deny that I don’t like you talking to her, no I don’t, and I don’t even who I am anymore

This is not the person that I used to be, you have changed me so much, I worsen and worsen like a sapling left without sunlight

They say I run, away from feelings, oh I have tried to run away from you for so long but I fail like the ant trying to climb the 18th floor building,

And all this time I have kept my inhaler closer to my lips than ever

You hold me close like bag full of lyrics that are going to numb your burning slashes, that’s what I am, the medicine,

But I am never the lover or the girl who speaks of things that make you laugh, like the way the poppies laugh in the soft breeze or sunflowers in the meadows

I have said goodbye more times, than the no of times, the oranges have bled their citrus in my eyes while peeling and onions have made my cry while slicing

I need to slice all my feelings, dissect them, write the formulas and theories on the white sheets and paste them on my wall,

For everytime I am on the “running back to you” stage of separation

I will hold the negative feelings as far as possible; his dentist just gave him a root canal and filled up 8 cavities,

I think he has had enough of candies without brushing twice for a while and I think I have had enough of you for a lifetime.

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