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Miss Maleficent

by @gossamer-2

I You said all you could see in my eyes was passion, But you were staring down the barrel of a gun, Russian roulette, Go look at your journals, you always knew love was quixotic, But you continued to fall deeper into a terrain uncharted, Leaving me to plan everything, all the adventures, “spontaneous,” We were never “we,” it was all faux, like my smile, maleficent. II Tattooed in a place you never saw is “maleficent,” I had to remind myself who I was, you were so full of passion, Waiting for the trigger after every outburst, each as spontaneous As the last, you always carried a deck of cards but you preferred roulette, You’d lost so much anyway, but this game sent you somewhere uncharted, All you did was watch the stars, you needed a compass, this love was quixotic. III My love was there for the taking, it was I who was quixotic, How did you miss it, I am Miss Maleficent, My name is on broken hearts everywhere, in places uncharted, But only to you, I’ve been everywhere, recognized your passion, Loaded my gun, tried to fire, ended up blinking, damn this roulette, I had to end it faster, I blinked till I cried, that was truly spontaneous. IV I am Miss Maleficent, you fell to roulette; Curse your passion, and feelings uncharted; Our love was both spontaneous and quixotic.
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Jan 31, 2014
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