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Vacant

Why are we here?

How did we get here?

Where do we go from here?

When did you stop loving me?

 

Was it a year ago? Two?

Was is more than that?

When did the feelings start to fade?

What did I do for you to stop caring?

 

The thing is

I feel like you think I'm terrible

I'm walking garbage

You left me like I was

 

What did you see in me

In the first place?

Why did you even choose me

In the first place?

 

Was it slow?

Was it some specific action?

I tried to be there for you

I tried to help

 

But you never let me in

You never let me help

Even when you were vulnerable

You were still closed up

 

I feel like I never knew you

I feel like you wouldn't know me anymore

I'm not the same person

I'm different, things have changed

 

They will never go back to

What they were

But I have this sick fantasy

Made up in my head

 

That you'll call me at 3 a.m.

Voice shaking and heart aching

You'll take everything back

You'll say sorry and want me again

 

Want me like how I want you

 

I can't talk to anyone

The way I can talk to you

I can't sit in silence with anyone

The way silence feels comfortable with you

 

No one feels like you

My heart is empty

I've been doing stupid things

Letting stupid things happen

 

Just so I can feel something

Anything at all

But everything is numb

It feels like I'm in a play

 

I'm a guest star in my own life

I'm sleep walking on set

I'm a robot, performing basic functions

I'm a puppet, letting everyone tug on my strings

 

Nothing feels real anymore

No where feels like home

No one feels like home

I don't know what to do or where to go

 

I am stuck in a place

I'm not even sure where it is anymore

I can't stop rambling

Filling this empty space

 

Nothing fills this empty space

My heart still aches

Everyone feels like a stranger

No where is home

 

I just want to die

Because then the pain would be over

At least I wouldn't feel empty

I just wouldn't exist anymore

 

That's better than this empty I feel

 

I can't go back

I don't think I deserve to go back

I don't deserve a lot of things

I don't deserve a lot of people

 

I don't deserve to be here

They don't deserve someone

As empty as me

As cold and harsh as me

 

Everyone is pretending to like me

My own lover hates the way I look

My own family tolerates me

That's why I can't leave

 

If I were to leave

What would I do?

Where would I go?

I'm trapped

 

I'm trapped in this empty shell

I'm trapped in my own head

I'm trapped in this relationship

I'm so tired

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