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You bend and fold my paper thin self control
Creating an airplane of inevitable destruction
You let it cruise into the air without a care in the world
The only bad thing that’ll happen in this life is the day we find out we’re about to die
I’ll ask myself if I lived up to my potential
If I conquered an inner demon or two
If I found a reason to be happy in the midst of chaos
And if I could say I loved somebody with my whole heart
If I answer yes, then and only then will I die in peace
The only thing that’ll ruin this is you
You have the power to derail my life
You could be that fiend that always escapes my grasp
You could you could be the creator of my insanity
You could manipulate me into loving you, even though all the while I was lusting you
You hypnotize my rationality, tossing it to the wind with reckless abandon
Yet when I close my eyes all I see is you
You erase all your faults and imperfections with the flash of your irresistible smile
You caress my irritated mind with your delicate touch
You have me wrapped around your every finger and you hold me in your hands
Hostage, begging for more
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Zooming out, I take it all in- the big picture
Is this what you thought it’d look like from the outside after everything was said and done?
A flawed image of our wasted youth
I pan in; seeing the fine lines of your words scribbled across the page
Did you mean them, or did you mean to just fill the empty spaces of my heart with false
intentions?
I crop it, making it seem perfect to everyone else except me
I’m the only one who knows the truth- cutting off all your lies to make you appear infallible,
isn’t that what you thought you wanted me to do?
Preserve your precious reputation?
I can’t be sure of you, but I can’t read your mind.
I feel cornered in your intoxicating atmosphere which swirls about with deception and greed
I breathe it in and it burns in my lungs
I’m becoming something I always swore I’d never be
This air smothers the flames of my inner most thoughts, swaying me into believing your
every word
I am under your spell as you swear you have me tucked under your wing
How did we begin to soar, even when I knew we were bound to skim on the sea of disaster?
I’ve become a jealous conniving monster
Hungry with desire for something that only temporarily satisfies; your love
It seeps into my soul and wrecks the film of memories taken by my mind
The perfect image of you is gone forever
In its place a gaping hole
I’m at the bottom of it, waiting for the bucket to carry me up from the failure of this lost
wishing well
I call but no one answers
I may drown in my own apathy before you come and save me and help me remember how
to feel anything at all
It’s a cycle, I know
But I can’t help but continue to trust in your saving grace- you save me from the darkest
demons alive in my heart tonight
A more threatening force than you could ever pray to be
Who should I let hold me hostage?
The jail cell in my mind?
Or a place in your arms?
Is one more costly than the other?
I will never be sure, but I know I will always be indebted to you
My greatest joy
My biggest downfall
And my best mistake
You knocked the wind out of my sails, and sank my ship
I now drown in your love
Calling out your name to save me from myself
I feel my last breath escape from my lungs
I am now your corpse, floating lifelessly in your shallow pond of pride
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Love is everywhere we turn
Love binds our rationality, holding it hostage
Love is the reason for our existence
Love demands our undivided attention, and nags at our souls until it gets its way
Love is the antagonist of gravity, lifting us above reality
Love comes to us with the sincerest intentions to bring us happiness
Love is the sunshine that peaks through our blinds, illuminating the dark spaces in our hearts
Love can be strong enough to last longer than forever
Love forces us to examine the reflection in the mirror
Love is a double-edged sword; it brings out the best and worst of us
Love consistently twists our arms until we give into its games
Love taps us on the shoulder and skips away giggling
Love requires us to look beyond the needs of ourselves
Love flutters like a butterfly, changing us into the beings we are meant to become
Love can fade as slowly as the sunset sinks and dissolves into the ocean below
Love composes a seductive melody on the strings of our hearts
Love convinces us we are perfect the way we are, despite our flaws
Love tricks our minds into thinking we should follow our hearts
Love is like a meteor that shoots across the sky, even after it’s gone, we are blinded forever
Love pushes and pulls us to our limits like the undertow of the sea
Love breaks down walls no other real force on Earth can
Love is the rainbow at the end of a downpour
Love inevitably reveals how fragile we are, bending and breaking us innocently
Love can slice like a knife, splitting our hearts in half, but never evenly
Love gives us self induced anxiety attacks
Love lets us lose ourselves in the moment
Love shows us what really matters
Love points us in the right direction, but doesn’t provide us with a map for the journey
Love dangles the keys to our hearts above our soulmates, waiting for them to bite
Love is only real when shared
Love is you and me
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Frustration weaves through into my mind making it hard to notice anything except the
obvious flaw in the tapestry, where are you?
I rip my masterpieces into shreds, what is this coming to?
Our perfect, radiant, sparkling burst of love was blinded by a light brighter than all our
feelings put together
They say true love comes easy and runs deep, but what about when it decides to leave?
Your love came into my life in the blink of an eye, but left an eternal stain on my once pure
heart
You extracted everything that is me out of me
And now display it on a shelf in your mind only you can admire
How vain do you think you could be if you tried?
But yet, my heart yearns for your touch of envy
I think you tear me down
Take that part of me to build yourself up with my perfection
Only when you’re fathoms above me do you feel satisfaction
Only when you decide to peel back the layers and dissect my inner most thoughts will you
see what I mean
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Your dark penetrating eyes pierce a part of my heart I never knew existed
With them, you see the me I don’t
The way they dig deep into my soul and salvage a sliver of sanity from the depths of my
scattered thoughts leave me gasping for your scent that fills the air which envelops us
That is my oxygen; the drug for which I pine
That look, you know the one, never fails to make me shiver in pleasure
It takes all the fight in me not to lose battle between desire and control
It escapes me at the sight of your presence
Now my body shuts down, all feelings cease, my heart slips into a deep sleep
One that cannot be awakened but only by your touch, the touch of sincere longing, one that
is genuine in its intentions and wants nothing more than to be simply loved, to be plainly
accepted, to completely adored
You are a being who shines light in the crevices of my deepest confusions
You are a being who plants seeds of hope in the barren land of my mind
You are the rainbow at the end of my downpour of tears
Oh, I love you so
Need I say more?
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