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run your fingers over the letters

you don't understand at all do you

not truly

you think

I'm a liar

that I still hold the knife

that

stabbed you in the back

[and in the heart]

 

kinda speechless

that you feel that way

think that way

believe it

untrustworthy? misleading?

false emotions?

can you not read?

here let me try again

maybe I can make it like braille

feel the words

 

it's like when the clouds stormy eyes

welled up and let fall the

tears of weekend rain

soggy, we laughed along with the thunder

and under our waterfall we let the windows

fog

tell me I lied then

 

or picture if you will

standing by the tree I

always parked by

it was a starry night, but we didn't see it

we were too focused on our faces

except

why is it I was the only one

drowning in the sadness that overtook my eyes

shaking with each strained, choppy breath

clutching that gray shirt like a life jacket

do you think that was all

for show?

 

haven't you looked at

my collection of black and white

silly letters scribbled down as fast as possible

trying as hard as I can

to leave it all

on the paper

but it's as if each word I write

is a tattoo

slowly invading every part of my skin

it's sinking in, it's staining everything

do you think this agony I speak of

is fake?

 

if so

if I am that liar with the knife who

led you astray and ******* you over"

let you down, kicked you around

if you can't seem to

open your eyes

and notice

just how much I love you

just how much I always have

 

then you don't deserve it

 

ill run miles for you when I know I only

have the strength for one

but don't you

dare

watch me run

if you don't even grasp

that I stabbed myself in the back

led myself astray

 

you have a right to

hate the wound

but if you can't see

what I feel

one day

I will learn

that I have to let go

and I will

 

then all these silly letters

all for you

 

well. go ahead and throw them away

on that day

they will carry no life

anymore

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Written by
megan-hundley
25 / F / American
Published
Nov 13, 2011
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