Tag: relationships
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[what if]
I still hear the whispers,soft as shadows at dusk,“What if you’d said something sooner?What if you’d held on a little longer?” The ghosts of choices slipthrough cracks in the wallsof my mind,asking,“What if you’d been enough?What if it had been you?” What if we’d gotten it right?What if I hadn’t trusted the liesthat led me…
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[Mendacious Man]
You walked in like a sonnet,all perfect rhythm and practiced rhyme,whispering words so sweetI never thought to check for poison. You made me feel chosen.Like the only one, the forever one.Like fate itself had wrapped me in silk and goldand placed me at your feet. You looked at me like I was a masterpiece,spoke my…
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[blueprints]
I’m still pissed that you took the future you promised me and left me holding the empty space, like I’m supposed to fill it with things I never even asked for. You told me over and over, “we’re in this together.” You said it like it was fact, like we were writing our story, page…
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[bitter love]
I loved you like it was my damn job—the kind of love that scars,the kind of love that wraps its arms around your neckand refuses to let go. I held you like you were the last thing I’d ever touch,and somehow, you became the first thing I’d lose. I loved you in every corner of…
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[Why]
Why is she the onewho wears the promises we made?The vows I stitched to the sleeves of my skin,all the futures I pressed into my palms,carefully,until he let them sliplike a breath caught too deep. I wanted the life she gets to call hers.I wanted the pieces he promisedbut never gave me.Instead, I stand in…
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[all i had]
You wouldn’t know what a real man looks like, you said. How could I… when the only example I had was you? -Amelia James
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Amelia James Poetry 