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Tiger Lilly's

Orange and yellow Exploding with memories like pinpricks and broken glass "Tiger Lilly's, that's your flower" "Why tiger Lilly's?" "Bright and lovely, they suit you. You know you deserve better than what you give yourself. You're more than this drug fiend you say you are" He drank seven beers at breakfast, the waitress looks over disapprovingly "Talk to me tell me how you have been, I worry about you." I eye the empty beers and say nothing Worried about me while his own addiction flourishes in front of me His worry for me was a distraction from his own crumbling "You taste like ashes, everything tastes like ashes" "I trust you" Letting go of you with every breath Goodbye friend I miss you
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Written by
kathleen-m-1
24 / F / Canadian
Published
Apr 21, 2015
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#ashes#go#addiction#flower#lovely#letting#bright#ash#tiger#lillys
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