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michelle Apr 2018
I just find it ironic
that the only thing that makes me feel full
is emptying myself
michelle Mar 2018
the world seems so small
when it comes to me at night
I count my breathing
michelle Mar 2018
friday’s became the pinnacle of my dull life
I would wake up a little bit earlier to just to be able to soak in the joy of the fact that in less than 24 hours I would be able to see you
to sit in your presence
to let my eyes trace the beautiful work of art that had somehow wound up in my life
to happily allow your smile to make my heart feel the familiar ache that you were so good at making me feel

and now
it’s like that ache has been ripped open to full-on wound
a black hole stealing away every ounce of happy that you brought me
and I’m pathetically grasping at the pieces of you before you’re completely taken away

the high that you make me feel is was enough to outweigh the pain of how you’re mine, but don't belong to me at all
but I think that’s the issue
it was a high
and my hopeless addiction to you was giving me such temporary happiness that it was taking pieces real happiness and eating it alive

I’m dying


I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
michelle Mar 2018
sdh
all of my friends and family are tired of me talking about you but
it’s the only way that I can keep whatever we had  
a l i v e  

all I want is to tell them about
the way you would wake up in the middle of the night, drunk with exhaustion, just to find me and kiss me with a sleepy smile
how you liked to show me off because people would want me, but I was so pathetically all yours
your drive to get into that **** ivy league school

I keep replaying all of these stupid, trivial, meaningless memories in my head
picking me up from the library after you spent the weekend with the father you aspire to
be, leaning over the center console to kiss you
listening to that awful ******* jesus song while on our way home, my hand waiting for yours to return to mine after shifting gears (I’d never tell you but I listen to it now, because I feel so ******* empty and I swear I can hear you singing offkey in my ear when I do)
turning over my shoulder to kiss you goodnight after kissing you a thousand times in the
movie theater because a thousand times wasn’t enough

but now
I’m counting my breathing so I can distract myself from the emotions that are so full to the brim that I fear I might spill over if I move to fast
I’m sleeping on your pillow, praying that somehow this will give me a glimpse into that beautiful brain of yours

each second passing feels like a **** hour, every hour an eternity


I’m drowning


but I don’t want to stop drowning because at least I’m drowning in you

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