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So, while I'm here broken & ******                                                           ­                     
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Mascara smeared; she still looks pretty                                                           ­ 
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Even when that smile in her eyes                                                            
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  That ***** is the devil in disguise                                                         ­         
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She took my love & my pride                                                            ­                      
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Now every day, I die inside                                                           ­               
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Puffy faced & pouting mouth                                                            ­              
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She shows you what love's about                                                            ­
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She was a habit you couldn't quit                                                            
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  It was me you chose to forget
For all the other women out there.
Unblinking eyes, plastic smiles                                                                       ­    
Not seeing me, this thing defiled                                                                      ­ 
No friends, many enemies                                                          ­                                                                 ­                                             
No one cares about me                                                                          ­                                        
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 Shunned kids at school                                                           ­     
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Not good enough, too uncool                                                                      ­                                           
 Taking me to my limit
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I just kept on taking it                                                                  ­                                        
Pushing it down deep inside                                                           ­             
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Shows itself as I hide                                                             ­                               
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A target, bullied every day                                                              ­            
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I die a little more each day                                                              ­            
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Collapsing inside, heart first                                                            ­          
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Don't they how much it hurts?                                                           ­   
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In private, hot tears slide                                                            ­                  
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Won't let them take my pride                                                            ­      
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I pretend that I don't care                                                             ­                                               
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Don't return their cold stares                                                           ­             
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Rush back home to get away                                                             ­       
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Don't want to be bullied today
I wrote this for my sister after finding out she was bullied in school as a child.
I'm meant to hold your hand--
the way it curls over mine with
such a tenderness that's enough
to make me smile and leak tears
onto the bundled scarf.

The wind sweeps them away,
I blink up at you and know
the warmth your smile pours--
liquid amber honey that
holds me steady in your gaze,
and yet--
this is a new place.

We have been here for days,
Rushing around on trains
and buses
and cabs
and subways
to all the places humanity treasures--
and I want to experience every moment
with You.

The culture in new places
always feels like a theoretical
until it's experienced...like an outline,
a sketch, a diagram even--
but diagrams don't reflect
the life in your eyes when
you quietly whisper a pun
while the tour guide is guiding
and I have to cover my mouth
or risk the ire of a librarian stare
from whomever might be offended
by a little burst of joy being born.

It started raining on the cobblestone
as we were walking to brunch,
but you brought an umbrella and
sheltered us from being soaked as
some less fortunates skittered through
the streets like animals seeking shelter...
but we are in no rush;
We enjoy the rain, the sound, the smell,
as it melts the scene that should be
painted in watercolor.

I don't imagine I would--
Or even that I could
forget all the little things.
I collect them like seashells or
shiny little rocks, and I
put them in my pockets and they
lift me up as if they weren't little
rocks at all but balloons
not letting my feet
ever touch the ground
floating forever
in this love we've found.
Between you & me the sands of time ran out                                                              ­
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So many memories that I forgot about                                                            ­      
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Riding out on a canoe, swimming at the Gap                                              
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The first time you kissed me, I was taken aback                                              
First date in January snow, it was so **** cold                                
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Your love was the first I'd known & it felt like gold                                              
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  Going out to your parent's place, I was so **** scared,                                                          ­      
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  and from the look on your face, you were scared as well                                                      
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  but it all worked out & we had a good time                              
 Without any doubts we got along just fine                                                             ­     
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We dated for a long time & before we knew                                                  
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You were all mine & our love grew                                                             ­ 
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  Sadly, I was much younger than you                                                                      ­                                                
  You grew more serious than I really knew                                            
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  You were ready to marry & wanted to have kids                                
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  More quickly than I ever did                                                              ­                                            
 You began to scare me with all your
needs                                                        
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  And I wanted more than I received                                                         ­ 
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You were my first love, but the timing was bad                                                                            ­                                                     
I was too young & you were all I'd had                                                          
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I wanted to live, I wanted to love                                                             ­       
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I wanted to see what else there was
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I'm so sorry I hurt you, it wasn't my intent                                                    
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I was too young to know what love really meant                                    
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I know you loved me & wanted it to work                                
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Believe me, I never wanted you to hurt                                                        
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It wasn't until the same thing happened to me                              
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 That I knew I had to tell you, I am so sorry
I wrote this for my first love.
What are you so afraid of?                                                              ­              
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­Being gay isn't contagious                                                       ­                     
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Why can't you be true to you?                                                             ­                                                                 ­                                                
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Love anyone that you want to.                                                              ­          
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Is it wrong to be different?                                                       ­             
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Who are we to consequence?                                                     ­                             
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We're all unique in our own way                                                              ­    
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What is wrong & who's to say?                                                             ­     
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Judgement is passed so easily                                                           ­           
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Like a cycle of stupidity,                                                       ­                                                              
Do you believe you can choose                                                           ­             
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Be careful of who you lose                                                             ­                 
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Friends come is all colors & size                                                          
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Do you have so many by your side?                                                            ­
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That you can choose to discard                                                          ­                
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everyone who's not your star?                                                            ­            
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  Words can hurt so **** much                                                             ­                                                                 ­    
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  Stop the hatred, enough is enough!                                                          ­                                                      
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  This hate could only make sense                                                            ­             
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If we embraced intolerance
For all those who fought to live their lives without judgement.
I trace your shape with trembling line,
On misted glass with fingertip.
The rain has blurred what once was mine,
Dissolving dreams that used to slip.

It washed away each whispered plea,
And tore the verses from the page.
Outside, the city sighs with me,
Drenched in a melancholy stage.

While streets are drowning in regret,
And sorrow drips from every wall,
All I have left — this silhouette
That on the glass begins to fall.

You're walking now through foreign rain,
Beneath some stranger's sheltered skies.
While I remain with silent pain—
Just raindrop whispers, dreamlike sighs.

I know you breathe a different air
Where wet boulevards stretch and gleam.
But I am left with ghosts to spare—
Your heart... your shadow… and the steam.
Love never walks a simple line,
Where joy and sorrow intertwine.
Where there is light, the shadows grow,
And passion burns with silent glow.

You bare your soul, turn inside out,
Give all your tenderness, no doubt.
But that same love won’t reappear—
Just wounds and truths that once were dear.

To love is not just warmth or grace,
Nor promises, nor prize to chase.
It means to die for what is true,
And live through loss for one clear view.

It holds such power, fierce and deep,
Each fault becomes a scar to keep.
The price of love is shards of fate
You lose, and lose, at steady rate.

Yet still you walk, though hearts have burned,
In hope that warmth will be returned.
And if the world should fall apart,
Love still will rise within your heart.

It asks not "how?" nor plays by rules,
It shuns the lines drawn out by fools.
In love, there's chaos, pain, and night,
But also stars and peaks of light.

You fall—but rise with just a glance
That sparks the soul, gives hope a chance.
For in its fire you are alive,
And through its storms, you still survive.

Love is the meaning of all roads,
Though thorns may lace its heavy loads.
It is divine, the endless stream—
In love, we touch the edge of dream.
And what if love’s a myth, a grand illusion,
A tale that humans craft to ease the ache?
A lonely heart, in silent disillusion,
Just sinks where love was meant to leave its wake.

What if from pain we shape it into being,
And fill the void with meaning of our own?
A fleeting warmth, so tender and redeeming,
That drives the night away when we’re alone.

We birth love in the space of expectation—
Its truth, a lie we need to still believe.
Without that faith, there’s no illumination,
And light itself would silently take leave.

But maybe the ones in love see something deeper,
Their gaze cuts through the surface of the day.
Or maybe love’s a question with no keeper,
A riddle time can’t fully sweep away.

And if love’s just a fragile hope we cherish,
That holds us near the edge where shadows grow,
Then should we wait for sparks that soon may perish,
Afraid to burn, yet longing for the glow?

Still, in the sky lives something worth desiring,
And every drop of rain holds whispered grace.
Perhaps love’s just a vision, yet inspiring—
The kind that lights and lifts the darkest place.

For even a glimpse can make the soul remember
The self it lost in sorrow’s silent sea.
Love is the flash, the ever-burning ember
That gives us strength—and soft humility.
I used to think I was an anxious child.

Now, I realize my parents
Could never accept my love.
Hope 6h
Coffee
and
cigarettes
the truth clenching
my chest.

So I'll take it to
the dock
and leave them there
then these white lies
can greet you at the door.

There's nothing left
to explore.
When I hand feed you
what's real,
and what can't be.

Your let your
mind playing games
and I'm playing Jack's
behind your back
telling to look away.

Go back to the door
where my white lies
will call your name -
the protection you
so need,
because the truth is
things unseen.

I keep it buried
in this coffee,
that whispers,
my guilt
heavy enough for two
maybe three or four

My salvations waiting
at that door.

but I'm a single man
so it's really
not that bad.

No matter what I tell you,
late at night on those same docks-
you and me we just can't see
the same pictures,
or the writing on the walls

I hide the truth
behind this cigarette
no matter how
much the cherry burns
I'll kiss your forehead
taking you back to the door
where my white lies
will sing you lullabies
so you won't cry
and I can continue to
live this double life.

A faithful husband
and a blind wife.

But I always return
to the place I started,
where we departed
even when I still hold your
heart in my hands.

Kissing strangers you don't see.
Laying with girls you can not know
cause if you did the
curtain would fall.

Like a record player
hitting that note
in the final song

Let me listen
on repeat,
with this lying coffee
and tattle tailing cigarette

I'll ignore this pain in my chest.
Keep you an ignorant wife
and the ******-
they'll never know
I'm paying one last
visit to the docks.

Stilling here 5 months later
and now I'm drinking tea.
Writing from males prospective
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