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I Should Have Listened

my mom used to tell me not to fall in love
until a boy came along that knew I was perfect
she told me not to sing my favorite songs
with somebody who would easily forget
the way they made me feel
so I never did
and I never mixed those two things either
because falling love with shaky hands and warm breath
is not the same as lyrics that make me feel okay
but it was when I met a boy like you
who made me forget how to breathe
that what my mother had told me so long ago
was lost with all the secrets we shared
I never wanted to be perfect
just to be loved by this boy who had rough skin
and calming eyes
and who wouldn’t soon forget 
the lyrics to my favorite songs

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Permanent

I knew things changed when you 
wouldn’t stay up with me anymore
to listen to my thoughts or to fill the empty silence
with the sound of your off tune humming
I guess I should have noticed when you stopped smiling
but I didn’t know a change of tone meant a change of heart
you changed your mind just as often as your eyes changed colors
every single day
and if I didn’t think things were different before you forgot my voice
i got the hint when I saw your mom
and she looked at me with a forced smile

and I don’t love you
but I loved the way you’d draw on my back 
with your fingertips as if you
were mapping out your whole life
step by step
I didn’t know those plans didn’t include me
and I loved how you drew on your body
with non permanent ink
because you couldn’t decide on a permanent tattoo
and when someone asked 
you said nothing lasts forever
and I wondered how that could be true
when I still feel the numbness in my throat
from when you told me you’d
always be alone

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Cancer Stick

smoke 1 cigarette
and it’s okay
smoke a couple more
and wonder when you’ll be dying
because some people are addicted
while i've smoked three packs tonight
and wished it didn’t take 40 years to
kill me

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Pain

when I was 15 I tore my ACL
and I thought it was the worst
pain I could ever experience

I was wrong

because when I was 16 I watched my friend’s dad die
when I was 17 a man who I trusted
and admired
walked out of my life by choice
and when I turned 18 I moved for the fifth time

but now I’m 19 and 
I’ve learned not to open up to people who don’t listen
life sucks but
I’ve made enough new friends 
to make up for the ones I’ve lost

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Forgotten

I've come to realize
that no amount of hot breath on my neck
will come close to how warm you made me feel
and instead of telling myself that
I cross your mind every now and then
when you forget to push me to the back of your head
it's just easier to remind myself that 
you left not because you had to
but because you wanted to
in a way I understand
but how can you leave someone who 
had planned their whole life around
the feeling of your skin against theirs
I swore the way you made me feel would never go away
but it seems that I've forgotten how your word would wrap
around me and take away everything that was once alive
and somehow
I'm okay with that

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Distance

even though it's been three months
since your voice has echoed through my bones
the alcohol running through my veins 
makes it easy to remember
your sad thoughts
and twisted ways
and that somehow you made silence 
louder than my heartbeat
844 miles away

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Better With You

you’ve taught me things like drowning
and that it’s not always such a bad thing
because sometimes you’ve got to sink to the bottom
to see all that life can bring
you’ve taught me that good things can happen
but that the bad will always come first
because smiling is always much better
when you know that you’ve survived the worst
and you’ve helped me become much stronger
than I was when I met you
because drowning in alcohol is always the answer
when it’s done with someone like you

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I Am Not Okay

I thought about you today
but not in the way I used to
with wondrous eyes and a thirst for adventure
it took three whole months
but now I can say that I was never the problem
but you,
with those brown eyes that could
make me feel everything and nothing all at once
and your heartbeat pumping through my veins
making me your own
I never had a chance
I never had a choice
and that’s not fair
how can you come into my life
and replace every thought with you and not care
this is your fault
but you can’t change the way you’d sing me to sleep
and then leave in the morning

the sunrise never changed
but you sure did

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Home

home
it’s where I spent 18 years trying to get out
because I felt this place was no good for me
and now that I’m not longer tied
to the house I grew up in
all I want is to go back
because home is where you’re happy
and I am not home