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11 lines of lost love

1. he says I love you but his eyes don't quite meet hers

2. his bed is always empty when he comes to in the morning

3. mother's mouth always form the lines of don't go and please stay when brother goes for his business trips

4. she only ever knows the taste of his mouth for one night, bittersweet cherry that lines her mouth like a stain

5. my father thinks my mother doesn't know when he texts Adrian love messages

6. my sister's smile is painted with cheap drugstore lipstick, but today with grief when she realises she is a (cheap) toy

7. my heart has been stolen by a boy who cares naught about anyone.

8. the nerd in my class delves into physics to calculate how much force he should exert to get a reaction from imogen who flings attention away like she does her clothes

9. she wishes upon shooting stars and red racing cars and 11:11s all just so she can muster up the courage to confess to the girl in the coffee shop who takes her coffee black with no sugar (probably because she's quite already the sweetest thing ever)

10. she doesn't remember his name but he remembers all too well the ghost of her fingers

11. i think the world embraces people so hard they shatter into shards and stay that way