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how it feels to love

no one ever warns you that love is so painful.

heartbreak? car crash?

i couldn't tell the difference.

did i fall in love, or off a cliff?

both seem equally pleasant.

looking back, i'm not sure if you were kissing me or cursing me.

(i'm sure you meant me no harm)

 

your voice, your smell, your smile;

these are all things I will never forget,

locked in a gilded display case in my mind until I die.

 

l-o-v-e is a four letter word i only barely learned to pronounce before my tongue and heart were ripped from my chest and open mouth.

i now sit in silence.

i wish that i could speak again, so that i may curse the universe for this torment.

 

slowly, i forget what my heartbeat sounded like,

how it felt to love.

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raymond-johnson
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Oct 7, 2013
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