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March 12, 2022

Forgiveness Is A Fallacy

Pick up your past and build yourself a wall to hide behind,the kind of sanctuary that only comes from being chased until any kind of peace will do,a lonely, stoney silence that allows you to slip under the surface of every bath that you take,begging the water to take you to a place where nothing…

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March 11, 2022

The Last Thing He Said, In Silence

The last thing he said, in silence,was that my love was not enough for him to depend on.In the echoes of an empty hallway,his shadow, dancing in the distance,he was so clear, that he couldn’t give it all up for me. He used to carry me with him,like a lucky penny,or the hip flask full…

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March 3, 2022

Things I Tried To Stop Saying To Myself In The Mirror Every Morning

Look at me. Let yourself be honest about what you are presented with. I have never been a Princess, never tainted and torn apart by a destiny, never really on the road to anywhere special, just dropped into a dull commuter town, sprinkled with a little exotic culture and left to get on with it.…

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February 28, 2022

I Am A Disappointment To My Father, and He Is A Disappointment To Me

My father was a man of few words and a man of many drinks,losing the will to love somewhere around my mother’s second trimester,and maybe it’s my fault,for forsaking my sense for sentiment,writing off his rage as just a temporary temperament,saving the day with some new excuse,letting my soul be used,until there was nothing left.…

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January 6, 2022

You’d Be Surprised What You Can Forgive

He threw the phone like thunder throws itself across the sky,never concerned with what is displaced or dismayed,just wanting to display some rage,a little trailer of the lightning that is on the way.He threw the phone like she’d made a mistake,the kind of misstep that could only be trained out of her with fear,and he…

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Forgiveness Is A Fallacy

The Last Thing He Said, In Silence

Things I Tried To Stop Saying To Myself In The Mirror Every Morning

I Am A Disappointment To My Father, and He Is A Disappointment To Me

You’d Be Surprised What You Can Forgive