echoes | poetry | wattys2018

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i am
drowning
from
the love
i wasn't
able
to give.
i can
barely
breathe.

smile
cracks
on my
lips.

wish
you could
just
take it.

yet
you wouldn't.

his love
won over
mine.

and now,
overwhelming
love
—for you,
is going
to be
the
death
of
me.