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'Tell Me This'

A collaboration.

Words by Charissa Ong

Pictures by Kathrin Honesta

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Knife

Like a knife, these memories cut me open,

A curse I'm left with without an option. -Coty

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Lies

" Why do you keep coming back?" 

"I don't know," I lied. -Coty

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A world without me

I'm exiled, From the little world we used to live in. Left floating, I fall into darkness, guided by self loathing. As I'm struggling to breathe, I'm always hoping, That you would come rescue me, And bring me to the world we once lived in. - Coty

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Bricks

I sit and marvel at the love we've built, Brick by brick we built it, It went higher and higher it did, It went too high too quick; it shook and tilt, Till it came crashing down, Hitting me with a ton of it. -Coty

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A promise

"I love you with every beat of my heart," Is a promise I know I cannot grant, Oh, how could I, or why would I, tell this lie, When my unbeating heart has ceased its pulse and died? -coty

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Read me

"I can read her like an open book,"said everyone, But they didn't know that she was only written for one. He could pick her off the shelf and read her immediately, If only she had a prettier cover to begin with.

- Coty

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Settling

Liking him could never be tough, It isn’t hard when he has his laugh. She’ll see him again tonight at dinner, Anything, To see his smile again on this stranger. And she’ll think this love would never die, When all she loves are his familliar eyes. “He’s just my type,” she lies to her family members, For there was no type but twas a man that he resembles. She knew he was the closest she could get, To the man she could never forget. Every night before she goes to bed, She plants a goodnight kiss onto his forehead. “He would never be him,” she broods, With a sigh, “But I guess he’ll do.” - COTY