and if you wonder where i went…
i walked away
because i couldn’t feel
all of the beauty and goodness
and wonder and light in me
if i stayed close to someone who
wouldn’t let me feel it
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and after
everything,
you won’t even
grant me
the smallest mercy
of your absence
from my memory
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dear soul,
if i had known it would be this hard,
i don’t know if i would’ve come
– human
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so achingly
desperate to believe
in myself, in life,
and in anything beautiful that can’t
be crushed by something cruel
– butterflies rising
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