you told me to stay away from toxic people, so i stayed so close to you. enough to try to prove i was good enough for you.
i nurtured your soul, touched your heart, to try to make sure you never felt like less of the man you portrayed to be.
i let you close to me too, inside my body, inside my head. to try to keep you around, but regretting where it led.
you were the stars in my sky and i wanted to be the stars in yours. but you used me, fed me lies, abused me, and threw me away like i was a saturday night whore.
desperately, i tried to be what you wanted, what you needed, what you were afraid to lose. i wanted to cherish what we had, and you left me with a bruise.
you told me to stay away from toxic people, i only wish i knew. and if i could do it over again i would have stayed away from you.
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Poetry(poetry): -literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of the distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. - a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regar...
