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Victim

I'll ignore the symptoms, embrace the syndrome

I'm damaged baby, so ******* damaged, but wouldn't that be so perfect of me to play the victim

I've disavowed the emotions that swell and seek to surge the barriers I so delicately built over this life

Waging war and setting siege with my heart in the dead of night

In the eerie quiet hours when I still hear your voice haunting, pouring through the trees

As if it was evaporated off your breath and swept away in the breeze

I'm nervous, hands shaking violently with discontent

When I replay every word you spoke and decipher what they meant

You reach for my hands as you beg and repent, I can taste the resent

The familiar taste seeping over my tastebuds

as you try and explain your fake love

I would've preferred you never came back at all after what you did

Never apologized never begged me to forgive

Never even mentioned the moment but instead simply left with him

Yet you dragged me back in it, filling my ears with your fallacies, my heart with your promises and my mind with your venom

I'm trapped in your spell, ignoring all the symptoms

So ******* damaged, how did you become the victim?

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Nov 16, 2014
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