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Mirror, Mirror

Frustrated
Hurt 
Confused
Unsure
Unable to see who I am
Unable to see you for what you are
What you’ve become
Yet I love you
But the longer I stay
The longer my love for myself fades away
I have sacrificed
Compromised
Went against my morals 
My principles
All for a love that was never really mine
I have been battered
Bruised
Scarred by the same lips that use to say the sweetest words
The words that use to play in my ears like a soft symphony 
You can’t even see how much you’ve changed 
Back to who you always were
The man you always denied to be
How naïve of me to trust 
In you 
In us
The mask that you use to hide your true identity 
Has disappeared 
Leaving you exposed
For all eyes to see
What a Liar
Swindler
 Jerk
You really are
It’s as if I am seeing you for the first time
As satisfied as I should be for finding this out now
Before I was in deeper
I am not satisfied
I am heartbroken 
Distraught
I can’t believe I fell for the illusion
Instead of for the reality
I can’t believe my chance for a happily ever after 
Was only a mirage I created in my mind
And I can’t believe I allowed you to hurt me so deeply
I can’t believe this broken girl in the mirror ...is me

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Saying Goodbye

I don’t know what to feel
What to assume
Things just don’t feel right
I don’t know 
If I can continue to go on this way
Continue to pretend that everything is okay
Pretend that my heart isn’t breaking more and more 
As each day passes
I feel like you want to break free
And disappear from me
As hard as that fact is to take
I have
I have accepted it
Just tell me that it’s over
I will be the first to go
I just don’t want to be the last to know
How you feel
You claim that you love me
But the words have lost their luster
Your actions tell me something else
They tell me that the time to say goodbye
Has arrived
It is inevitable
I have tried to fight it
Ignore it
Yet it still lingers over my head
Like a gloomy cloud
They say saying goodbye is never easy
But can someone tell me why does it have to be so hard?

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So It Was Written

You want the answers 
To questions unasked
You want me to reveal all the words written in my soul
But what have you given
Nothing more than the three words you have recently shared
Love isn’t enough
To change the fact 
That doubt lingers in my mind
Maybe my doubt stems from my own insecurities
Or maybe from the fact I know what happens
When love makes you blind
Hurt quickly follows
Tears increasingly flow
Alone you become
I don’t know if I could love you
Because parts of me still yearn for him
Parts I ignore 
Parts that can’t seem to go away
Torn between what I should do
And what I can’t do
I miss the old days 
I wonder about the new ones
How could I give you my all
When my all is not mine to give
I was once so mesmerized by a man
That it almost killed me when he left
But once the daze cleared 
And the stars were removed from my eyes
Without him I was
And with you I became

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Golden Lillie

A face that was once so young
So youthful
Has turned into one that is seasoned 
Golden
Every wrinkle 
Represents an experience survived
Overcome
The laugh lines that surround your mouth
Represent all the times you smiled
Laughed
Even though 
You have always been someone who gives more than
You received
And you never seem to mind at all
It’s what most love about you
It’s what I admire about you
Though your body has changed over the years
Parts that was once firm and tight
Has transformed into parts that represent
Childbirth
Maturity
Age
Your hair that was once so full and dark
Has altered to a beautiful shade of gray
That symbolizes a life well lived
Your beauty hasn’t wavered
Hasn’t dimmed
I know that the bones that were once so strong
Have begun to ache
Your only wish is that God will take the pain away
He would never give more than you can bear
Though my words can not be a salve to your wounds
I share them for comfort
To show appreciation
For you to hear just how phenomenal you are  
My golden Lillie Mae McCray

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Caged

I am drained from holding on to a love
That is slipping through my fingers
I try to tighten my grip
But that seems to just lessen my hold
I can’t hold it
I can’t hold you
I can’t make you happy enough
Satisfied enough
If I could make you touch the sky?
Would it make you love me?
The way you should
Cherish me 
The way you said you would
You tell me not to ever leave you
But you have already left me
To face the world
The pain
The rejection
Alone
Why did you find me?
Only to hurt me
Why did you pursue me?
Get me to care
Just to show me how much you don’t
 I guess you just enjoyed the chase
Forgetting the times I told you
About my past hurt
The times you told me about yours
When we use to talk for hours
And still have so much left to say
Foolishly I believed you were different 
When the only difference was your name
You can’t even see how much of me I give you
How much of me is dying from being with you
Nor do you appreciate 
The fact I always put you first
Even though you always keep me last
But that’s okay
I no longer want you to care
Let the chips fall where they may

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Over

Tomorrow I will see you
It will be the first time
Since I left
I envision you walking in the house
My heart stopping
Everyone else in the room disappearing
You speaking
And the only thing I am able to do is stare
The memories start playing
Blurring my vision
I feel myself getting caught up in the way things use to be
Conveniently forgetting the ways things have to be
I see you reaching out for me
I see me leaning into the familiar 
Embracing you with the hope
I never have to leave your arms again
Never leave your side
But then my mind plays back to the night
You said the words that broke my heart
Played to the morning I found the evidence
That destroyed my faith in you
The morning that I forced my feet to move
My eyes not to look back
And I freeze
I remove myself from your arms
The ones that not so long ago felt so safe
I look in your eyes
The eyes that show little regret
I remember how you tossed me aside so carelessly
Time and time again
I remember how tired I was of you making love to me and disappearing suddenly
I remember you pacifying me 
With promises you never meant to keep
Recall the fact you let me go without a fight
Without any indication that you ever really cared at all
The images leave
Reality returns
And I smile
Because everything is exactly the way it is supposed to be
Over

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Impossible Fool

It is impossible to love you
If you make it so hard
Impossible for me to give you what you need
If you don’t tell me what you want
So now we are at a standstill
Should we stay?
Should we go? 
You told me I was everything you wanted
Then somewhere along the way 
You became everything I needed
In the time 
We have been together
I have become someone new
I have changed
To an insecure
Vulnerable
Emotional
Female 
When I used to have no emotions at all
My tears never fell so much
My heart never ached so badly
You are so unappreciative 
To all the things I do for you
You build me up 
Just to tear me down
Making me believe in things I will never see
You’ve hurt me
When you said you wouldn’t 
Liar, liar
I should have never believed you
Should have never believed you were any different
When you are exactly the same
I should have never given you 
My body
My soul 
My heart
You didn’t deserve it 
And you never did
I was fool once
I won’t be a fool again
But an impossible fool I am

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Spoken Too Soon

Last night
You were so cold to me
It was as if you never told me
You loved me
As if we never shared anything at all
You wouldn’t let me touch you
You wouldn’t even look at me
And when you did
All I saw in your eyes was 
Disgust
Distrust
Simmering hate
Or so it seemed
I didn’t need you to speak 
Everything your eyes told me, made my knees go weak
“What did I do?” I frantically plead
You ignored me 
As if I never said a word
I whispered “I love you”
But my declaration fell on deaf ears
For a second 
Just one split second 
I could see you feeling my pain
But your sympathy quickly faded away
You asked me to leave
In you heart
I knew you couldn’t possibly mean what you just said
“I don’t love him” I said
He doesn’t make me feel the way you do
He never did
Never will
You just looked at me
With an unreadable expression on your face
With clouded eyes
So I kept talking
I told you it only happened once
I only did it for closure
For a sense of peace
To close the door 
I left open for too long
You opened your mouth to speak
My stomach turned uneasily
Confusion then hurt displayed on your face
You finally said 
"I was only mad at you for breaking my favorite mixtape"
I wish I could take back everything I just said
Just as the rage filled your eyes
The tears swiftly rolled down my cheeks
Right before the curses fell from your lips
I heard my mother say 
“Ashli, wake up…it’s six

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Expecting You

My feet are swollen
My hands are huge
My back hurts
My breasts ache
I waddle when I walk
I can’t fit anything
He thinks I never looked more beautiful
I think I never looked more fat
When I feel you flutter under my hands
My anxiousness for the day we meet increases
I love you so much 
Even though we have never met
I look around your newly decorated room 
Glance in your freshly made crib and imagine you lying there
Waiting for me to hold you
Kiss you 
Soothe you
I can’t wait into I gaze into your eyes
And see pieces of me
I don’t know what I did to deserve you
But I am so grateful for the opportunity to have you
I look through your drawers and smell all of you’re freshly washed clothes
I envision how cute you will look in them
When it is late at night
While your father is holding me tight
I wonder if I will be a good role model
Will I set the right example for you?
Even though I didn’t plan to have you
What most consider being a permanent accident
I see as an endless gift
Who would have known all those passionate nights?
All of those sizzling kisses
All of that lust covered love
Would give me my son

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Building

While you are trying to acquire your millions
I am trying to build our foundation
You are so focused on your plans
You seem to forget about ours
Seem to forget about me
I try to stay positive
Try to be assertive 
Aggressive 
Rational
I try to ignore my loneliness
But then I just become frustrated 
When I realize I am still building on my own
When we started
Us being the best was your first priority
Since we started
Us keeping it together has become your last
I feel as if we are grasping for straws
Hanging on to something that has long gone
And even though my back aches from bending
My mind is exhausted from thinking
And my hands have contusions from building
I continue to pile brick upon brick
Continue to smooth the cement to keep us together
I work through my doubts 
Work through my fears
Ignore my weariness 
Brush away my silent tears
I build for you
If only you would grab a shovel and build for us