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If we could do a purging
cleanse out all the bad
would it be worthwhile
rekindling the sad
thing that we once had?
 
If we could bathe the sum of
all our moments in some bleach
would the pieces left
be enough for our
two souls to finally meet?
 
If we could combine forces
smother resentment with our bare hands
would I have something
to relate to
when you get so big and grand?
 
If we could extinguish the fire in us
I'd soon fall into your arms
but as it turns out
the joke is on me
you suppressed the fire alarms    

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Every night he sat beside (hardly lay)
A woman who loved him (he turned away)
 
So she drifted into flumes of indulgence
Hitching a ride to a chemical place
that numbed herself when his anger resurfaced
All she had to do was slip away
 
Unaffected he was,
Glib in the fact
that as herself,
she no longer could act
 
How can he claim not to know
That she monitored his every breath,
That she dreaded his footsteps coming home
because he scared her half to death?

Just as they'd guessed-
Worn down with nowhere to run….
On the day he became the very thing
That he'd promised to save her from  

 
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I watch rejection shape me
Grasping control while
Losing it completely
 
Appraisals from others absorb in my skin,
My cells churn them over until small and thin,
They crumble and break into pieces so fine,
 
Ground into old wounds as if
Enemy lines
Burn, heal
 
Burn, and then
Heal
So who am I?
 
Which version is right?
Can I stay here
Or will I burn up alive

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