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I remember the way you used to kiss me

Pushed up against the wall, hands in my hair

Holding onto me like I might disappear

As if I were a trick of the mind

And you’d blink and I’d be gone.

You have hurt me so deep,

So precisely.

I see your eyes in my dreams at night

Staring right through me

As if you never held me close,

And the words we spoke to one another 

Were figments like yellow birds,

Taking flight across the sky

The words we whispered, our breath caressing each other’s skin

Late at night when we were both too alive to sleep -

Consumed by the electricity in our hearts, and

Caught up in the expectation of forever.

I have a list called ‘Things I want but don’t need’

And I’m starting to wonder if I’ve missed putting your name

at the very top of that list

Because I want you so bad

That I think I need you ,

And what I NEED to do,

is remind myself that I never needed anyone

To complete me

But damn does it feel nice to be loved,

And be seen in the reflection of your eyes

To feel that sigh of relief and rest my weary soul

inside of someone else’s arms for a while

I have to remind myself that even if you turn your back 

Like so many lovers before,

Tomorrow will always come, faithfully

And I’ve always preferred sunrises to sunsets

Because I believe in the magic of a new day

Rather than the finality 

of saying goodbye.