Posts
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Over It
We were great, sure
Until suddenly we weren't.
I liked you as a person
But not much more than a friend.
You were cool and funny
I was, well, am, me.
We got a long just fine
But you wanted more from me.
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Things I Can't Have
There are a lot of things I can't have:
You
Your love
Your care.
I shouldn't be allowed your smile
Or to ask you truth or dare.
I shouldn't be given your warmth
Or your adoration;
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Ab Aeterno
Ab aeterno:
"From the everlasting"
"From eternity"
"From outside of time".
The philosophy of ab aeterno is beautiful.
It is forevermore,
Abstract,
Latin
(as Latin tends to be).
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Things They'll Never Understand
They'll never understand that you don't have to snap
To be heard.
They'll never understand that their astounding rudeness
Cruelty
Hatred
Discriminatory remarks
Hurt actual people
GASP
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Forbidden Jealousy
I want to be them.
Those girls, with their perfect hair
Perfect faces
Perfect bodies.
Shining stars
Of perfection
Not a blemish to be seen on their faces
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Jeremy the Cow
Jeremy the pink ghost cow
A wonder to behold
He sucks out your insides and makes them into smoothies
And his existence usually goes untold.
That is, until one day
A pair of crazy cousins
Loves
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Wish on a Star
They didn't say your name at graduation,
there was silence when there should've been you
when we should've been screaming for you
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Music
Growing up, music was always a constant.
Then, it meant very little to me.
It was only background noise, but always there.
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Teenagers
We lie in bed with our arms around ourselves,
cradling the mangled bodies of children
who had the stars squeezed out of their eyes so that, still shining, they fell
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Shattering
Will we ever stop
Forming gaps for young children to fall through,
Teetering on the edge– –swinging their legs.
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Somebody
Everybody has somebody — the person who is their everything and whom they never want to go without.
It could be for a long time or a short time, a moment or an age.
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Impression, Classroom.
Shoes worn by angry feet scuff up mirror floors,
and white paper faces with blue lines
look down to see nothing reflected back
but searing lights and