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Your eyes sparkle like pools of water reflecting stars in the midnight sky, but you light a torch in me that ignites a fire that slowly consumes me with every waking moment that I am not beside you.

And the tadpoles in your ocean of a mind draw me closer.

But the flames keep me at a distance.

I don't have much patience.

I want to hold your hands.

But when I do, I will have made my choice, acting out my doom.

Your beauty looms over me.

Like a bumblebee in search of a bit of honey.

I followed you for a long while, we went everywhere.

I watched you cross every sea.

We left a trail of glistening birch trees behind us.

Pretending the cuts were long gone.

But you never loved me.

No.

In honesty-

I was nothing to you.

Everything you put me through was to your benefit, never my own.

And boy, your intentions have shown.

I always knew I was just a pawn.

An escape you'd soon act on.

But I never thought it'd take so long to move on.

I'm sorry for becoming so withdrawn.

But I guess it's whatever.

Just lie to me no matter what the weather.

Tell me no truths.

Hurt me throughout my youth.

It's no use.

- Ariah Christman
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