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promises, promises

I like to find beauty in the things that hold on to us.

The universe has been writing wills and testaments on my typewriter and I am trying to listen.

It's saying things like "Let go... a little bit... let go... your grip has always been too strong".

The universe calls me dear and I want to scream when he tells me to let go.

Let go. Let the light in. I'm tired of letting things in, I am tired, universe I am tired

and you are a ***** liar.

Nobody is coming back.

Nobody is coming back.

My wrists are full of dead friends.

NOBODY IS COMING BACK.

And the universe replies "but when they do..."

Everything is always a hesitance. Why can't something be forever?

My words will die the day I do and what will be left of me?

A promise? A broken promise?

A broken promise.

I hope you know by my poems if I am doing well or not.

I hope you know it's usually the latter.

I hope you know I have loved you as long as I have thought

and oh, I have thought.

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/

/

the universe never saw this coming

the universe quiets his mouth, lets her speak with only her tongue,

tries to decipher the back and forth.

the universe never knew I was a shadow.

nobody knew.

and all that's left, when the echoes die

all that's left will always be our prolonging.

our promise? our broken promise?

a broken promise.

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