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no one taught me how to love without the mandatory 'i love you's, without fabricated appreciation just because everyone else was doing it, no one taught me the rawness of it all how the feeling consumes you like fire and makes you speak in a language you never knew you could speak no one taught me how to express myself in ways that don't slip between people's fingers like water, with palms up heart cut out and bleeding every pad and print facing the earth each vulnerability visible from the stars no one taught me how to keep my emotions running like a broken tap because for years i'd switch it off once i thought i was done dealing with them and afterwards i'd never want to run my hands through the water ever again because i was scared to feel no one taught me how to love how to express myself how to feel that once i loved i burned like rome i loved people more than they would ever love me, i'd always love them too much and once i learned how to be vulnerable i ended up tearing my heart out and giving it to the first person that would listen once i learned how to feel i felt too much to the point of drowning my hands rubbed raw from running through the water one too many times no one taught me how to live in greys so i live in blacks and whites all or nothing too much or too little a constant push and pull - i just want to be whole. i just want to be whole.
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Oct 26, 2016
Oct 26, 2016 at 11:13 AM UTC
life lessons
no one taught me how to love without the mandatory 'i love you's, without fabricated appreciation just because everyone else was doing it, no one taught me the rawness of it all how the feeling consumes you like fire and makes you speak in a language you never knew you could speak no one taught me how to express myself in ways that don't slip between people's fingers like water, with palms up heart cut out and bleeding every pad and print facing the earth each vulnerability visible from the stars no one taught me how to keep my emotions running like a broken tap because for years i'd switch it off once i thought i was done dealing with them and afterwards i'd never want to run my hands through the water ever again because i was scared to feel no one taught me how to love how to express myself how to feel that once i loved i burned like rome i loved people more than they would ever love me, i'd always love them too much and once i learned how to be vulnerable i ended up tearing my heart out and giving it to the first person that would listen once i learned how to feel i felt too much to the point of drowning my hands rubbed raw from running through the water one too many times no one taught me how to live in greys so i live in blacks and whites all or nothing too much or too little a constant push and pull - i just want to be whole. i just want to be whole.
#love#feelings#sad#life#hurt#emotions
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Oct 26, 2016
Oct 26, 2016 at 11:13 AM UTC
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