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Downward

I see shapes in the clouds

Like angels falling, forsaken

I never thought much of them until you spread your wings wide

You opened my eyes to the skies, though they oft look downward still

 

I love you with something sick and hollow

Though you’re distant like the clouds

And false like the angels

 

As we drive the shifting white becomes stretched and sullied

Those angels I lose as they lost me

But I carry you with me in a twisted, lonely embrace

In my arms though you belong in the sky

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Written by
taylor-martin
American
Published
Jul 18, 2013
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11·92
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Wrote this about a month ago. I don't know if I like it. I used the word "oft," so that's a plus.

I've hardly touched my notebook since school ended. It's bumming me out; I wanted to fill it before I left for college. Looks like I've got work to do over the next few weeks.

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