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You Let Me Down

"It's a lost cause. It's a bad bet. It's a storm but gotta face it." 

You Let Me Down
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My first solution was to never speak to you again.

Push you to the back of my mind the way I assume you do me when you’re with her.

 

Some people believe humans cannot truly multitask.

Their minds return to the place it genuinely wants to be.

 

I genuinely want to be with you.

 

Am constantly collecting stars to name

after you.

Save so much of my special

for you.

 

But I can see the dimensions you cross to stand next to me.

Maybe that’s why you’re so hard to reach.

Maybe it takes a few days to return a text from a separate galaxy.

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Maybe you jumble which pieces of your heart you decided to give to me

and which you’re saving for someone else.

 

I know you love me.

Love in code is still love.

Not that important is still kinda important.

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You remember to tell me stories of the planets you visited when you're away. 

Drunk on the adventure of somewhere else

but still always sober enough to know that I am not your true home.

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I hate you so much for it.

With the same hurricane winds I love you with.

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Tears fall at 80 miles per hour.

Thoughts spiral even faster.

I always chase you. 

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Trying!

To cry and heal and move on and

to keep it together

best I can.

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But we know humans can’t really multitask.

 

I wish the sky would fall.

I wish the moon would turn to blood

just like God said.

I wish for some tangible manifestation of this heartbreak.

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I wish you'd call me.

Tell me everything is alright.

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I always chase.

My abandonment issues won’t allow me to let you go.

Hoping I’ll never leave your heart if I don’t leave your mind but

 

you won’t validate my emotions with reciprocation

the same way you do hers.

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It breaks my heart

but I always chase.

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Thinking I’d be special to you because you

are so special to me.

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My only solution now is to dissolve.

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Bang my head against the wall until my feelings are knocked unconscious.

Shoot these thoughts into space 

and pray they touchdown safe in another obit. 

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