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A fossil

by watchingoveryou

Last night I walked alongside the trees, the woods, frosted over with ice, snow My boots are new and cheap, letting in the cold and moisture also Alone my promises the trees will keep Although I wish instead the leaves would return and fall upon me as your love once could Washing over me, a rythmic pattern Soothing was your love, my love Soothing were the words you held On the palms of your hands, On the tip of your tongue, But I was always so young Too young for love, my love Last night the wind was soft, gentle Inside my heart has turned a fossil Where the blood used to pump Where my soul used to swell Now all that is left is to dwell But dwell I will not, not on you any longer I have come so much further, And become so much stronger Still that fossil lingers on to know, If things had happened differently, Would our love have had the chance to grow? Soothing was your love, my love, Soothing were the hands you placed Upon my sides, entwined with my own Tangled in a mess of cotton sewn, In a place no longer called your home, To hold tight to one memory, Is to ignore all of the rest, And those that rest upon my chest, I digress, I cannot dwell upon a mess. Tonight I lay dormant, in a room, in a cave It is not mine, it is borrowed, a nightlight shines for me To breathe, to see, to lay alone inside this home I cannot call it my own, for youth is all I truly have Too young for love, my love, Is what you always said Little did you know, my love This love will never cease This love will never rest Except inside the fossil That replaced my heart Inside my chest.
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Jan 10, 2013
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