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There is no set price to its worth. It is not polished jade, poached ivory nor a vase dated by a dynasty. It is hearts blood drawn to hearts blood. And it provides a warmth that no poppy can produce. It drives some mad, until they're left peering into the bottle, pounding the polished wood top for more. The heart is truly unbreakable. If only it could crack just a little. If only the hollow in the chest could be dumped full of the good times and left just as that. When did forever equal a year, how could something so good end up in tears. I wish to rip my heart out, bury it in a wooden box deep below the earth. Hide it away from its need to be loved. I lived alone and alone was good. I did not seek it out it found me. . And the torture lays not within the waiting.
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Mar 8, 2014
Mar 8, 2014 at 4:57 AM UTC
Some Need It So Bad (It's Death Once They Get It)
There is no set price to its worth. It is not polished jade, poached ivory nor a vase dated by a dynasty. It is hearts blood drawn to hearts blood. And it provides a warmth that no poppy can produce. It drives some mad, until they're left peering into the bottle, pounding the polished wood top for more. The heart is truly unbreakable. If only it could crack just a little. If only the hollow in the chest could be dumped full of the good times and left just as that. When did forever equal a year, how could something so good end up in tears. I wish to rip my heart out, bury it in a wooden box deep below the earth. Hide it away from its need to be loved. I lived alone and alone was good. I did not seek it out it found me. . And the torture lays not within the waiting.
anthony-b-perales
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Mar 8, 2014
Mar 8, 2014 at 4:57 AM UTC
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