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The silence is too loud- the background noise is making my ears ring. I don’t know how much longer I can tune it out. I don’t know how much longer I can control my mouth from wandering away on your forehead and your cheeks and your collar bones. I’m sorry if I end up picking you dry, I just have a lust for love that seems to be perpetually unsatisfied. It cannot be denied I am a fiend, but to tell you what you do not know would destroy my pride and most likely cause your retreat. How do we go about telling them how we met? Am I just a bet? Or just the best that you could get. I can't help but be cynical towards your approach and you unfortunately meet the status quo. The more I get to know you the more apparent it becomes I’ll never be able to control you; nor will I want to. My freedom is contingent on yours as well and it may leave us in a well but then we will finally be alone and forced to talk and what if you choose to break it off? Well then off I go like I had planned for you the whole time, zip away on a plane like I am riding white lines through white winter skies. When your hands are on the insides of my thighs I can only adjust in passive- aggressive consent that could easily be misinterpreted- either way. Don’t let my terrible, smooth, icy skin be the only reason you stay. I am a hypocrite at best- hand up my dress and you biting my lips like you know I like. Is this what it’s like to be a grown up? They say always a bridesmaid, Well for me? it’s always the couch. Never graduating to the ascent required to tumble onto the pocketed recesses of the spare mattress. I often wonder if I am simply The World's Best Unpaid Actress. C.e.M. 11.22.14
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 9:53 PM UTC
Desolate Despondence
The silence is too loud- the background noise is making my ears ring. I don’t know how much longer I can tune it out. I don’t know how much longer I can control my mouth from wandering away on your forehead and your cheeks and your collar bones. I’m sorry if I end up picking you dry, I just have a lust for love that seems to be perpetually unsatisfied. It cannot be denied I am a fiend, but to tell you what you do not know would destroy my pride and most likely cause your retreat. How do we go about telling them how we met? Am I just a bet? Or just the best that you could get. I can't help but be cynical towards your approach and you unfortunately meet the status quo. The more I get to know you the more apparent it becomes I’ll never be able to control you; nor will I want to. My freedom is contingent on yours as well and it may leave us in a well but then we will finally be alone and forced to talk and what if you choose to break it off? Well then off I go like I had planned for you the whole time, zip away on a plane like I am riding white lines through white winter skies. When your hands are on the insides of my thighs I can only adjust in passive- aggressive consent that could easily be misinterpreted- either way. Don’t let my terrible, smooth, icy skin be the only reason you stay. I am a hypocrite at best- hand up my dress and you biting my lips like you know I like. Is this what it’s like to be a grown up? They say always a bridesmaid, Well for me? it’s always the couch. Never graduating to the ascent required to tumble onto the pocketed recesses of the spare mattress. I often wonder if I am simply The World's Best Unpaid Actress. C.e.M. 11.22.14
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 9:53 PM UTC
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