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Bitter

My lips kiss the heat in the air, pretending you're holding my swollen hips.

I'm hypnotized by your every move and word.

Yet you come and go like our diseases we hold.

The taste in my mouth burns back to my jaw,

so bitter and raw.

Yet when the sweet lyrics come out of your groin,

I'm back again.

So obedient, I'm disobeying my every lesson. Everything I tell myself not to do

but I'm there at every sound and every smile.

Then it turns cold in literal seconds, and my beaming drops to a hallow fall.

You gain and gain every last drop of my changing sleeves, the heart is hidden in this beast.

And I agonize over the idea that history has repeated myself.

What I swore I would do seems so child-like, that I'm tearing it away.

You're tearing me away, too. And you.

Because no matter how much I know your heart could love,

no matter how little softness you posses,

no matter how many miles separate us,

I'm still left so sharp, so bitter.

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annaleisa
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Apr 2, 2012
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