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I knelt at your altar 

Until my knees sunk into warm soil 

Flowers withered at your feet

Echoes of bells faded  

Your idol – now a tombstone,

With my name carved into it.

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I do not know which is worse–

Never being able to perpetuate your love

Or never being loved enough 

To be immortalised into art 

Never the muse– 

Just almost

Always a poet

One among a million

Perhaps that is the secret in-between;

The worst of both worlds

Neither the name, nor the voice

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Hope is a malady

It consumes you whole

Until the ship sails and you wonder

Was it ever really yours?

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In the warmth of your embrace

Her scent filled my lungs

Your eyes shut tight

Lost in a fantasy

Your hands wound tight around my waist

They never stopped searching

I bowed at your altar

Not knowing it was hers all along

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Perhaps I spent so long collecting the pieces

I forgot what the picture looked like

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“Wait for someone who love you differently. One who can see the fire in your soul, and the child in your laugh, and the ocean in your heart.”

— JmStorm

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Perhaps it is nature's kindness

That I yearn only for the blind

For what if I'm a tsunami waiting to be awakened

The ocean is only beautiful as long as the Moon holds its leash.

- kore

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“Wait for someone who love you differently. One who can see the fire in your soul, and the child in your laugh, and the ocean in your heart.”

— JmStorm

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I saw the sun in your smile

Perhaps it blinded you from the ocean in my heart

Maybe it was destiny that left you in the skies and me with the tides

A cruel illusion of an embrace at the horizon

A crushing reminder that our love exists, only as a fantasy.

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The sands of time 

Drift across the dunes

Unbeknownst, 

The future I held onto

Reduced to a whisper

A fragile memory

Grasped with desperate fingers

Not desperate enough or perhaps,

Too desperate.

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Perhaps “no” means “yes”

Until my nails are digging into your flesh

And bruises bloom in violent protest,

A stark contrast against your skin

Perhaps “no” is not enough

Until it’s you clawing at your chest, breath ragged

Clumps of hair ripped out of your scalp

Driven to madness

Perhaps “no” only means “no”

When it’s your throat against the blade.

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If I had to do it all again,

Perhaps I wouldn’t love you at all

But alas, your name remains a deafening whisper in my heart

Forget you, I cannot

Forgive you, I will not.

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You loved me like the ocean 

And I you like the skies

I taught you to fly through the storms

You left me to drown in the tides

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You always peeled oranges for me

I never did like them peeled.

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Head on your shoulder

Lips on your skin

It's always me and you

Never us

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In every universe,

it's always her.

My undoing,

My worst muse,

My best enemy.

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“Here I am, braids in your lap, soul in your heart and yet, I yearn for more.”

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Like the summer rain

Drumming your way into my heart

At all the right beats.

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“The world isn’t fair,” he says

He was my world.

And he didn’t like to be wrong.