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Havisham
Planning honeymoons, to forget that I hate you, for forgetting me.
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Ruby Necklace
You kiss each of my fingertips, I am breathless and beaten. I play Princess, melancholy Margaret, missing a man she can never have, because torturous love, is the sweetest kind. I miss you, even in brief moments, when you’re mine, the devil dangles a darling divorcee, in front of my tear stained face. I still…
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The Holiday I Hoped We Would Have
I thought, for a moment, on the Ferris wheel, above a sea you’d never seen, in the ever moving, ever evolving flesh, that we would be immortalised. A puke inducing public display of affection, that made tourist children cover their eyes, and parents sigh, with nostalgia, along with the knowledge that they’d later have to…
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Red Ribbon
I am so awake, but so tired of it. You sleep, by my side, and I weep, watching your dreams, all the days you have to live, without the remains of the frayed red ribbon, that used to hold us together. I watch your dreams, the way they change, depending on who you’re facing. Things…
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Paper Cuts
I have paper cuts, that spell out the wedding vows, you forgot to make. I have paper cuts, that tell me to wait, sleep, hope. I am impatient. I have paper cuts, that feel like your warm embrace. I can’t stop reading. I have paper cuts, that tell a sad love story, but I cannot…