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No, Love

Maybe if I crack open my rib cage

I could tape my heart back together myself.

 

I've never seen love;

I haven't heard love.

Maybe I haven't even felt love.

 

One step forward but

two steps back.

I was halfway to believing, now,

I'll never look back.

 

Maybe if I rip open my chest

I could see if I even have a heart to fix.

 

I forgot.

I gave it to you with apprehension;

I gave it to you with my hands.

 

But I must have fallen all alone

because, dear, what you gave back

to me

was only a stone

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alyssa-rose-n
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Aug 20, 2014
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