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__Two-step verification__ — it takes two to fall in love, but that’s yet to be confirmed. Grinding gears just to talk, shifting through awkward conversations, but we can’t reverse all the bad things we’ve said at those rushing high speeds. Lovers with underwear conversations, trying to fix what they barely understood, so unaware of what’s really the problem. We run into relationships holding open scissors —the result? Just another love story cut too short. But teach yourself to love someone new, still maybe the lesson won’t stick. So brace for impact when they say, "I truly love embracing you." And I feel like Saturday news — as they talk about us like weekend headlines. They say I left my imprint on you, but that just comes from being pressed for a time, rushing to report every mistake before the feeling fades. Needing nothing — and in the same breath, needing each other. Yet neither of us has anything long-lasting to give. To love someone with real deep depth while they only offer surface depth. _Lurid entertainments._ Frozen, unflattering coitus. And quoting someone else’s expressions because we’re too shy to speak out our own love language. Two people, extending their existence — but modern love feels like this: one of us still alive in the moment, while the other is just living in a picture without you in the end. ////// You claimed to be bound to each other, but it was really bound to end
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Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM UTC
Bound in regret
It feels like I'm screaming into a void Yet I know you all can hear. I can’t figure out why you don’t respond, Is it anger? Maybe fear? Or is it apathy towards A fellow human soul. Or maybe you just think That my tragedy has gotten old. Two years on and I still Feel like **** Still struggling on my own To deal with it. Two years and I could still Cry at the drop of a hat. But you just don’t seem ready To deal with that. I could not make it anymore Obvious if I tried; That I've been falling apart Since my brother died. You told me to stop Hiding how I feel behind a wall. That if I spoke honestly There would be help from you all. I no longer even try To hide how I feel When you ask, my answer Of pain Is real. So, I'll keep talking, And you’ll keep ignoring what I say I'll keep talking And I'll never be okay.
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Apr 9, 2020
Apr 9, 2020 at 10:54 PM UTC
Signal lost, try again......PLEASE try again
We don’t speak any more. Nails fly out of your mouth to crucify while I oscillate between hanging in pained silence and screaming thoughtlessly back at you. But far worse than your nails drawing blood is the piling of the silent stones, day by day, into a monument I cannot climb, inscripted with the character of your life I can no longer read. Could I ever? You bludgeon me with “you will never understand.” I never believed you until now. I cannot see your knights and know not what dragons they have slain for you. I was once your champion. Your laughter is shrouded when I am near, although I hear it report from a distance, its absence piercing shooting pain. I cannot know your particular darkness for the shadows are yours and yours alone. But I knew something of your lands once and sacrificed more than a little blood on your soil. You fence me in lines I never drew. But perhaps if you just start again by telling me a secret, the garden we once planted together will not lie so barren and unkept. I tend it still. Tell me a secret that I might once more whisper to your heart.
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May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 at 9:50 PM UTC
Distance