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Conquer

By loving you I learned to hate myself

In finding you I learned to lose myself

Eyes roll back into my head,

Decorated by ugly shades of red

Don't really know if I meant what I said,

If I'd rather be dead

 

Couldn't stop the shakes

Turned my tears into lakes

Trying to teach myself not to need you here

This is someone trying to disappear

 

Craving your careful stroke of my hair

That simple bliss so temporary

 

But in leaving you I've learned to need myself

And in forgetting you I've learned to be myself

They said life teaches you how to live it,

you just have to live long enough to get it

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Written by
sarah-richardson
25 / F
Published
Feb 22, 2016
Lines·Words
16·115
Tags
#love#addiction#depression#pain#sadness#up#break#drug#you
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