Falling Backwards (A Bet With Myself)
by @tyler-lynn-pulliam
An eye for an eye was the reason we acted
You’re so far away and I can’t stop the fireworks
Talking the night away, the exhausted second meeting
A sip of ale from the singer in the graveyard
I never wanted to call to the Sun
But every morning I would cave in
I buried myself in an empty room
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The trips were acidic to my tongue
Beaches filled with trinkets and sands
“Fish swim, forever free” you tell yourself
Now, Pisces, who is the one swimming?
Buried in the sands is what I remember
The other half is lost
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Am I the one to defeat now?
The words that stained the walls are now sparkling white
Abandoned
“Now close you eyes and sleep” she wrote
I’m somewhere between the ponds and the highway
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The mimics and shadows match suit and play their roles
The words do no sting or stick
Tough as leather, from the arrows
That flowed from me like a river
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This product is finished
Ignition improbable, idiot.
No courage and hardly a motive
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Triplet years
Falling backwards
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My head is buried