Lingering

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Lingering echoes

Carry through, straight trough

Bouncing of the walls

In the maze of a mind.


And not a minute goes by,

Where this mind does not fall

Into that old vice, that old habit

That I am trying to...need to break

trying to delete it

You can delete the messages

The pictures

A number

But so much still remains


I ran with her

into myself,

a disastrous hazardous mountain.

She aided me in a climb


But now I need to trust myself

I need to remember

Her daggers of words

Toxicity, self-resentment

Reminders of the pain

she was in,

And the pain that

remains for you

Her pain hurt you more

Then your fall from the peak


Minutes go by

the only thing in my mind

Each minute ticks

Each second makes me sick

My heart has dropped into

My stomach.

As it is being digested, by the acid


It lingers, but can't be grasped

Echoes cannot be heard

Either way it's over

Neither way can be



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