i love this one! p.s., have y'all ever had hibiscus lemonade? it's absolute heaven
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you have become
fleeting
fleeting moments
passing sorrows
the taste of salt
on my tongue from
tears
iron seeping from my
cheeks
from where i bit
too hard
i didn't cry over you
like i cried for the others
maybe that's because
i haven't quite
let you go
yet
i'm still
hoping
that someday we'll
find our way
back to each other
because nobody's ever
seen me
the way you
saw me
and i'm still
chasing that
chasing the high
that loving you became
chasing the low
that losing you was
because i believe myself
stronger
when i am picking my pieces
up off of the floor
you have become
passing kisses
stolen looks
the taste of sweet hibiscus
that lingers on your tongue
after a glass of icy
lemonade
on a hot summer afternoon
was that in paris?
time becomes jumbled
as more of it passes
i hope i never
jumble
up
you
but i will
i know this much
so perhaps i am
grasping
for pieces of you that are
solid
coherent words that i can
hold onto
as the years pass
because even though
those hours are
long gone
i can still taste the hibiscus
i want to be able to
still taste you
or the idea of you, at least
because that seems to
be
exactly what i was
in love with
that scares me
you have become
starched linens
fitting a mold that
nobody put out for you
yet you somehow
found yourself in
anyways
because society is
like that
because people are always
hurting us
changing us
pulling us apart
the world pulled us apart
and when i held out a
hand
for you to take
you had already
slipped away
into the void
beyond my reach
your spell captured me
you waved a wand
and suddenly i would've done
anything
for you
maybe it was because
you could tell
when i wasn't really okay
and i had been
looking for someone like that
i'm tired of wishing things had
been different
yet here i am
you have become
a person in memory only
the essence of you existing
like some kind of
specter
that haunts my recent
daydreams
and i will remain to you
nothing
because while you were
everything to me
i was not
everything to you
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