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Sarah Aug 2015
I don't know how long
I have

until you decide
you don't love
me again

so I'll sit and watch you
smile
for now
for now where
you're in love with me
and I'm not just a
girl to you
who sometimes
walks away

and when she turns
when I turn
your thoughts
don't stray

for now I know you love me
so I'll let you take my hand and
buy a rose for me.
Sarah Aug 2015
So I'm
sad that
I can't
conquer
love
and to
think
a year
ago
I didn't
know that
love existed
or that I
could feel it
in my soul
like so

and the sun
sets in its
orange descent
but I see
the world in
mono-color
where I
stumble
as I'm
falling
(I'm falling)
apart

So in hope
of defeating
love, I'll sit
beside my-
self
in the
corner of
my room
and cut
1,000
paper hearts.
Sarah Aug 2015
Long before the sting
of routine
came
the poison
bite of reject
bled into my veins
and killed me in 1000
ways,
every fang
and I wasn't ready for
a snap like this
dropped like this
turned up like this
this was our house
before Medusa came
and your snake eyes
took the night.
Sarah Aug 2015
I told you
to put the masts up
to set sail
to the seas
of all you ever
hoped for

I told you to go into the
deep
into the rocky blue of
infinity
that is
nature's lullaby

And then I shouted to you to
let go
of all the anchors
the weights
the sandbags holding
you down so that
you could
float into
the night
without the burden
of your
pasts

and as I sank into the
hazy blue
the foggy murk of
uncertainty-
the final,
seventh sea
I realized
you had dropped me

a dash in a bucket,
a bead in an ocean,
a tiny piece who loves you and
is heart break in
fluid motion

it's then I learned I was the weight
and that your ship had been set free.
Sarah Aug 2015
One day when
all your summers are
gone
and the heat of
lover's joy
subsides

you'll think of me
in every winter
drink
you pour
your bourbon and your
poison
lemon slice

And you'll wonder
if I think of you
and where it is
my sparrow heart
flew

but you won't find
a piece of me in
anyone
because I know that
I'll have
gotten over
you.
Sarah Jul 2015
Before I start my
soul search
I have to tell you
that this self
hunt starts
with you
where inside your
eyes
a lullaby, a
cypress,
reflecting in the moon.
Douse me in your
moon glow
where I can drink your blazing
calm
where I'm floating in your
darkest sky
I've been yours all along.
Before I start my
soul search
and before the
sea foam holds the shores
I'm telling you
I know your soul
because mine's always
lived in yours
Sarah Jul 2015
10 years and
I love you

10 years and
I'm waiting for your
call

10 years and
I'm haunted by an
evening in the valley

where I'm running in a
field and the dark begins to fall

10 years and
it's you, I can't
deny it

10 years
& your kiss still
tastes the same

10 years comes and goes so fast

10 years yours
I will remain
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