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#abusivelove
“sleep in my eyes and bundle up inside my beating heart; perhaps i’d even let you rest in my ribcage nestle your strands of jet black hair between my fingers and intertwine your hands with mine kiss my chapped lips and make sure to not smudge my lipstick come back to me, baby i’ll show you what love really is.”
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Jan 2
Jan 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM UTC
love me, love you
Don't you think I want to be able to have a drink with him without the panic setting in. Don't you see that when I say my ex was an abusive alcoholic, I mean that I'm still recovering. Don't you feel my panic rising with every sip of liquor that flows down past his lips. Don't you realize that when you downplay my worry your words are a vicious slap. Don't you think that I do want to get over it, but that I just can't help but remember. Don't you see the impact I still feel from the squeezing of his fingers around my neck. Don't you feel any sympathy, or are they just words to you, "abusive ex." Don't you realize that to me, that was years of expecting death at the hands of the one I loved. So please, just. Don't.
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Apr 23, 2017
Apr 23, 2017 at 1:08 AM UTC
Don't
From my lips, hangs a cigarette The smoke illuminating your silhouette You’re my crutch and my vice And all the lies are overpriced Yet here I am with you between my fingers Dragging in your warmth with every breath But when the smoke no longer lingers I’ll wish for a fate kinder than death Because you’ll be my demise A devil in disguise You might even forget that you’re choking When it’s love that you’re smoking
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Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM UTC
Ashtray