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I'm not guilt-tripping you I'm just telling you the truth of what I think That it will be better for you If I think I should leave. I can't find love, I'm terrible at that It brings me to places where the way out Is narrow that I have to cut a piece of me To get through, scathed but free (I think). But when love finds me I panic. Some kind of beauty I just can't take in. Some kind of gift I don't deserve to receive. Love can give in all its capacity But when I can't reach that level of reciprocity I'm afraid I might hurt love And love would leave, scathed but free. It'd be better for love to leave soon Before I give love reason To hurt, to be numb, To cut a piece of itself to get through.
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Jan 14, 2018
Jan 14, 2018 at 11:27 AM UTC
Too scathed to receive
I'm not guilt-tripping you I'm just telling you the truth of what I think That it will be better for you If I think I should leave. I can't find love, I'm terrible at that It brings me to places where the way out Is narrow that I have to cut a piece of me To get through, scathed but free (I think). But when love finds me I panic. Some kind of beauty I just can't take in. Some kind of gift I don't deserve to receive. Love can give in all its capacity But when I can't reach that level of reciprocity I'm afraid I might hurt love And love would leave, scathed but free. It'd be better for love to leave soon Before I give love reason To hurt, to be numb, To cut a piece of itself to get through.
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22/Cisgender Female
Jan 14, 2018
Jan 14, 2018 at 11:27 AM UTC
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