Remember when you loved me?
You told me you loved me in so many different ways
Used words I’ve never heard before
Smiling as you shoved those words in my mouth
Because you would rather make me cry than eat your words
My lips chapping and puckering under the sourness
My tongue wriggling and suffering under the bitterness
Eyes burning and watering with the nauseating flavor seeping down my throat
I would have tasted it again because I loved you
Even though I like the flavor of lemons much better
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Lemons are good because they’re sour
But at least lemons can be made sweet
Perhaps life gave me lemons and I was meant to turn them into lemonade
So life gave me you.
And I thought you were a lemon too
I thought I could make you lemonade
You were no lemon
You were just a sour choking hazard
And I gagged and coughed for so long
But I could never spit you out
There were days I broke teeth on you
Even though I never tried to chew you up
The way you chewed me up
Spit me out
Because I was your gum
The flavor could only last so long
Even though I offered you all the sugar in the world
It was never sweet enough
To you, all people have an expiration date
And I don’t fucking care how dramatic you think I’m being anymore
Because I’m not gum.
I’m not your gum.
You don’t get to chew me up and spit me out.
No matter how badly I want you to.
Because that’s what you made me think I was made for.
But I’m just human.Â
And now I’ve become sour candy.
Because I want everyone to choke and gag when they taste me.
Because you took away my sugar-coating
Because I don’t want people to taste the sweet right away.
Because GOD FORBID they taste the sweet before the sour…
…they’ll chew me up and spit me out again.
