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I take what I can get.

I don't ask questions I don't want to know the answers to.

I lay with you and map the plains of your face with my fingertips and I think:

this face, this face--- this face that's caused me so much pain,

this face I've seen buried in the neck of another girl,

holding her tight and apologizing for me.

How odd that I can place my palm on something that was such a symbol of pain for me once.

I hold your hands soft in my hands and I think:

these hands left an imprint in my skin, a warm reminder and then a cold sting-

but now they are touching me soft, and your lips are kissing me soft,

and I take what I can get.

I don't ask questions I don't want to know the answers to.

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kathryn-6
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Jan 20, 2015
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