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Love and hate, hate and love

I love you with every fibre of my being
                     I hate you with everything I have
You are my inspiration 
                I inspire to be everything you’re not
Every word out your mouth is a song 
       When you talk all I want is for you to stop
I want to be around you every minute of every day
                          I never want to see you again

Words trapped
Words silenced
Forced to live in the grey
No life 
No colour

My emotions 
Lined up neatly in the middle
Like princesses in a beauty pageant 
Neat and tidy and presentable
Ready to be shown to society
Those lucky enough to be unaccepted are shoved back into the shadows
Hiding from the judging looks and hurt faces 

My feelings
Worn and tired
Yet buzzing with adrenaline 
Like soldiers on a battle field 
Lacking the hope that they’ll ever see the light of day again
That they’ll ever send a red rose to their loved one 
That they’ll ever throw a rotten red tomato at their enemy

My thoughts 
Silenced 
Like prisoners 
Chained and tortured 
Beaten and broken 
Forced into the deep dungeons of the earth

Happiness
The pretty blonde they all want to see
The stereotype
The norm
Well the majority isn’t blonde
They aren’t skinny
They are ugly
They are stunning 

Love
The one I protect 
The one I protect from you
The one I protect you from
For I know it has the power to destroy 
Destroy hearts
Destroy lives 
It has already destroyed mine
Destroy friendships
I hope it doesn’t destroy ours

Hate
The boil in my bubbling blood
The monster in my bones
The one I deny
But I know the truth
I always will
In the way my fingers itch when I see your face
In the way my feet are ready to run away from you
In the way my thoughts stray to a paradise without you

I am yellow
Living in the false grey world
If only they knew I was red
Potent and alive 
True and honest 
Love and hate 
Hate and love

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