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when you first came

you planted flowers

in my rib cage

and they were lovely

when you left 

they grew into weeds

you stopped watering them

they swarmed my lungs

suffocating me

for a long, long time

when you finally came back

the pedals had returned

even more radiant than before 

my lungs stronger than ever

because i had learned

to water them myself

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