so far, so long...

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its over.
it's over now...
say it ever so often until you can believe it:

"it's over, it's over, it's over"

say it so often until eventually it becomes nothing more and nothing less than a matter of a simple fact.
it's over and yet -
it's better like that,
'cause at least I knew you then.

it's over and just for a moment I was so sad,
but it's not ideal to cry -
when I know I'd do it all over again.
all just 'cause it's better to have things ending,
than to never have experienced them at all.

so far everything has paid off -
and that must be more than enough.

so long, my friend...
you were nothing more and nothing less,
except that for me you were one of the best.

but it's over,
remember what I told ya
and what you said -
that was the beginning of the end.

it's over,
so release -
it's over, it's over, put the weight off your shoulder!
it's really over! over! over!
say it ever so often until eventually...

you'll start to feel -

at ease.

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30/12/2023

A poem about how hard it is to tell yourself what the brain already knows, but what the heart can't accept so easily, even when you repeat it thousands of times.

this piece is one of my favs :)  I quite literally wrote this one sitting on the bathroom floor, listening to Palace... (this band has really mastered saying goodbye - turning it into art each time) and then this poem just kinda came together.

The concept was also inspired by "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop - a very meaningful- and one of my favorite poems: 'cause the art of losing isn't hard to master (except that of course it is! a lot... at the very same time.)

xo, S 🌹❤️

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