In the First Place

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My dreams
Aren't dreams
Anymore,
If you
Could call them
'Dreams'
In the first place.

They're fragments
Of a wish
That I didn't realize
I made
In the first place.

Each piece
Has hardened,
And sharpened,
And hollowed out
My chest.
I don't know if
There was
A heart there
In the first place.

My lips pucker
And I miss
My obliviousness
To the things
I was missing,
Those feelings
I never felt
In the first place.

Nostalgia reigns me in
To memories
I never made
In the first place.

And now I'm stuck
In a house
I never called home
In the first place

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