Please

Please don't become something else that I'll have to survive.
Please don't become another ghost that I'll spend years trying to revive.

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Will You Let Me Linger?

You're like finding my oldest favorite T-Shirt that I forgot I still had; a gold mine at the very back of my bottom drawer. I pull you on and my soul ignites. It's so comfortable and familiar. It also floods me with memories of danger and excitement--even heartache. But all the holes, rips, frays and wrinkles are all apart of the beautiful disaster that was you, that was me, that was us. Will you let me linger for just a little while in the comfort and familiarity of all that is still you, all that is still me, all that could still be us...?

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Sunrise/Sunset

The blinding sunrises have become dreadful, as the rising sun only reminds me that I've got to get up and face another agonizing day without you; but the blazing sunsets have become my salvation, as the setting sun affirms that I've made it through one more undefeated day without you.

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We Win Wars

We Win The Wars

Tonight, my love, I'm longing for the nights when I can feel you breathing on my neck,
As I drift off to sleep, feeling your loving fingers tracing every freckle your eyes can find, never missing a speck.
Tonight, my love, I'm craving the warmth of your skin covering all of mine,
And the weight of your body lying on this bed, your head so heavy on the pillow next to mine.
I just want to breathe you in; memorize the way you smell, the way you taste, every particle of you that exists, every bit of the creation that you are.
I want to trace your your face and count the number of smile lines near the sides of your eyes, admire every tiny imperfection, find and kiss your every scar.
I've been waiting for so long to be close enough to feel the fire that burns inside of you,
It's taken nearly ten revolutions around the sun to bring me back to you.
We've been dancing in circles, around and around we go.
We've been holding on as the seasons have changed, whirling in circles, around and around we go.
Tonight, my love, I'm dreaming of you with a hopeful heart.
My thoughts have taken me to a place where we don't have to be apart.
Tonight, my love, I'm cold and so alone just listening to the rain fall,
My mind is disillusioned by your footsteps that I should be hearing, slowly creeping down the hall.
Don't keep me waiting too long, I need to feel the fire that burns and rages so deep inside of you.
Don't keep me waiting darling, I'm too weak to make it through another revolution around the sun without you.
We can keep dancing in circles, around and around we can go.
Hold me tighter as the seasons change, I'll cling to you, as around and around we go.
Breathe deep, let all of my soul seep into yours,
Don't you worry about the obstacles; you and me, we don't just fight the battles, baby we win the wars.
Keep dancing with me darling, around and around we'll go.
Hold me tighter baby, in these circles around and around we'll go.

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A Sparrow in love with a Hurricane

A Sparrow in Love with a Hurricane 

Darling, I don't think you know how much it hurts to admit that we've been cut from the same fabric; we're burned and frayed.
We're tornadoes; beautiful storms wreaking havoc on all that's in our wake, never sticking it out to clean up the messes we've made.
Wasn't it you that said "love 'em and leave 'em, never let 'em make it out unfazed?
Cause when you're a sparrow in love with a hurricane, you'll never make it out unscathed."
Oh, darling, if you only knew how much I hate myself for becoming you,
I'm doing all the things that you did; the things I swore that I'd never do.
I've become a callous megalomaniac; a ghost to all I've loved and they don't know once I'm gone, I won't be coming back.
Honey, you taught me well and for that I'm not proud.
You sucked me in to this ruthless habituation and like you I've become a destructive storm cloud.
You burned me, you bruised me; I might be stone cold but, still I remain unbroken.
You changed me for the worst--you nearly killed me with all the words you left unspoken.
After you knocked me down and the dust settled, I brushed myself off and stood back up,
I was barely breathing but I learned that I don't need anyone to pick me back up,
Cause when you're a sparrow in love with a hurricane, you can't expect to make it out unscathed.
I did what I needed to do, even if that meant me becoming you.
I'm surviving by doing all that you did; all that I swore I'd never do.
I am a callous megalomaniac, quite like you.
Without a single goodbye, I become a ghost--I'll never be back, just like you.
Don't you worry, darling, I might be burned, I might be bruised, I might be forever changed; still, I remain unbroken.
All of your demons will always look like me,
I will torment you, I will haunt you,
I am your ghost, always following you.
There's no escaping me.
I will remain inside your every single demon.
I will remain your ghost, never completely invisible to you.

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