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Sad Eyes

*I can't be alone,

So I'm cradled, I'm held,

But my feet are just left

Dangling.

 

You're nothing to me, you're

Nothing to me.

You're nothing

To me, you're necessary.

 

I need you to be here,

I need you to go.

And I need to leave, and be

On my own.

 

But I don't know how!

To do things my way,

I don't know how

To not depend.

 

I'm clinging, I'm hanging, I'm

Clutching at straws.

I shake, pry open

My own clamped jaws.

 

And as I walk away again,

So much of me dies.

Forever the girl

With the sad eyes.*

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katie-eustace
Irish
Published
Dec 16, 2012
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(c) Katie Eustace, 2012

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