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Empty Names

Baby                              

Sweetie                

Princess

 

Snake your way into my heart

With sweet nicknames

Make me drunk on it

All the lies I want to hear

 

Baby                        

Sweetie          

Princess

 

Snake your way in

Take what you want

Then leave without a peep

Quietly leave me to my memory

 

Baby                

Sweetie      

Princess

 

Depend on me

You promise

Depend on me

You couldn’t trust the last one

But you can trust me

You can… always trust me

 

Baby          

Sweetie    

Princess

 

Slithering in and slithering out

Charming and chasing and running away

Feeling and loving and changing your mind

And always naming me

 

Baby      

Sweetie  

Princess

 

Even as you can hear the tears falling down my face

And the angry fumes in my voice

 

Baby

Sweetie

Princess

 

I am not a princess

I am a queen

Passed down from many others before

I stand and breathe your  air

But I am not the same as you

I am no sweetie

No baby

I am a storm

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michael-grace
American
Published
May 6, 2013
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