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Hannah remembered.

You'll always be twenty-three.

Always.

And that kills me.

You were older than me.

Now...

 

******* the futility of it all.

******* ******* it all!

I wish that I could punch a hole

in the world with my words and

find you.

I wish you knew.

 

I just wanted to tell you..

I just thought you needed to know,

at least once before everything is

broken headlights and crushed

tomorrows.

Blood and pavement and a median.

Crushed glass and a world

standing hollow without you.

I wish you knew.

 

I think I loved you once.

Think.

Coward.

I need to find you some days.

**** this tired world and it's

arbitrary thefts.

 

Your name should have a million hits a day.

You should have been...

My god how brilliant you were.

Like a jewel and like a genius.

You should have been forever.

 

I guess, in a way, you are.

 

You were a part of my life,

and a much bigger part than I ever would

have had you believe.

Did you know that? Had you figured it out?

Perhaps not.

 

A year since. Fifty-two weeks.

More in fact.

It was May.

Day after my brother's birthday.

 

******* it.

 

You were older than me.

October to my November.

One month that you lorded over me.

One month.

 

You'll always be twenty-three.

Always.

Forever.

Now...

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Aug 24, 2011
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