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it is unwise to avoid certainty i've turned silent for landscapes made for deprived mothers queens to deafening men lost of their purposes why have they hidden her crown ? I have your legs but we're running such antithetical courses Mother, I miss you but I cannot come home I gain weight I lose sleep there are no lovers left for me the wind has an ancient distaste now for all the nights I exhaled complacency I want to sleep with my door open I can trust anything under a Libra moon but never another repeated phrase me, you the first place I swam, the first meal this is trust you are love I never learned to love mountains but I was born with memories of them I was born in Florida I've picked apart women that didn't deserve or earn it like petals she loves me she loves me not she loves me when did I learn to grasp ? to keep we should be taught instead to let go before we are learned to catch so we aren't holding on so tightly I strangled myself I learned quickly to let go & became grateful of deep-breaths weary of knots weary of nots I refuse to be my own worst enemy I am all that is mine. all that I find is fleeting. eventually all things will lift, just as they will be dropped or put down to keep, ha ! walk into my room I have nothing it is easier to breathe like this I don't like being alone with shadows   we are all royal skin and salt iron and decay bone over brain over-thinking our day we are alive we are afraid we are okay we are okay we are
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM UTC
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it is unwise to avoid certainty i've turned silent for landscapes made for deprived mothers queens to deafening men lost of their purposes why have they hidden her crown ? I have your legs but we're running such antithetical courses Mother, I miss you but I cannot come home I gain weight I lose sleep there are no lovers left for me the wind has an ancient distaste now for all the nights I exhaled complacency I want to sleep with my door open I can trust anything under a Libra moon but never another repeated phrase me, you the first place I swam, the first meal this is trust you are love I never learned to love mountains but I was born with memories of them I was born in Florida I've picked apart women that didn't deserve or earn it like petals she loves me she loves me not she loves me when did I learn to grasp ? to keep we should be taught instead to let go before we are learned to catch so we aren't holding on so tightly I strangled myself I learned quickly to let go & became grateful of deep-breaths weary of knots weary of nots I refuse to be my own worst enemy I am all that is mine. all that I find is fleeting. eventually all things will lift, just as they will be dropped or put down to keep, ha ! walk into my room I have nothing it is easier to breathe like this I don't like being alone with shadows   we are all royal skin and salt iron and decay bone over brain over-thinking our day we are alive we are afraid we are okay we are okay we are
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 5:29 PM UTC
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