A decade (a spoken word poetry)

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I moved on from you
Like a decade ago
Maybe even after when we broke apart
I've detached my heart from my lifeline

I don't find that spark when we touch
When our gazes connect
When your eyes linger on my lips
That little spark that once made me alive,
I can't feel it anymore

When we broke apart,
You threw away the key to my heart
You lost it
You never bothered to find it and give it back

You locked everything in the little cell called my heart
Jailing my precious memories
Those little moments I hold dear
It's there
And it made me have a difficulty to breathe.

But a decade made little cracks
form in that prison
Little by little, all those kept inside
Kept getting out
And I find myself drowning.

But a decade was enough to learn how to swim
A decade was enough to learn
A decade was enough
A decade.

I taught myself ruthlessly
Long, hard lessons made my heart Hard
Non-metallic
So that it wouldn't be attracted to your magnets

I thought I did it
I thought you didn't find the key
But as you call my name
My heart starts to palpitate
My heart starts to listen
My heart starts to find the voice
My heart starts to find the trail that leads me to you

The little things I forgot
Kept coming back to me
Like a boomerang that catapults back
It hits me hard

All the drowning finds me
And my limbs start to go limp
My limbs start to find a hand
My limbs don't find any

My name was like a casual call to your lips
My name was like nothing to your lips
My name was like all the other names in the world
But you calling me was like a wave of nostalgia
But you calling was hope
I don't wanna hope anymore

A decade isn't enough
A decade isn't enough to move on
A decade wasn't enough to learn.

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