We give pieces of our hearts away
some discarded,
some cherished.
And we hope the pieces
might be exchanged,
so we can call each other mine

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I set you free,
The earth whispered to the sky,
Hoping you’d find your way back to me.
And whenever the sky longed for the earth,
it sent soft kisses
on the wings of a summer breeze.

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The ghosts are harmless.
They never mean to harm us
and only appear when we summon them.
It's the demons we need to be wary of.
They lurk in silence,
pulling strings,
constantly waiting to taunt us
the moment we fall.

Of course, it's all in our heads.

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How do I proclaim my love for you,
when I have locked myself in a glass box?
All my sweet words die in my heart,
when it cannot reach you.
Loud inside, quiet outside
Oh, if only you knew.

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With each heartbreak,
He traded pieces of his heart
For trinkets,
like songs, scents, and secrets.
With each heartbeat,
Somewhere out there,
his heart echoed;
And the pieces he collected
rattled hollow in his chest.

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Snip snip snip-
The cords were cut.

Thud thud-
The puppet fell.

Freeze.

Paralyzed yet free-
The earth beneath
and the sky above

But where to go?
It did not know how.

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For too long,
I was told not to melt,
Not to collapse,
Not to let go of myself-
Yet they call me
cold and frigid.

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In a burst of summer shower,
the sun made love to the sky.
We stood within their warm embrace,
and watched the sky blush — shy.

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From your lips,
Sweet nothings become
stardust and poetry
And oh, how I long
to lose myself in it.

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In the brightness of the sun,
I disappear in its light
In the softness of the moon,
I vanish into the shadows of night
I bloom for a brief time,
In the hush of twilight
And I wonder when I will fade forever
A thought that fills me with fright.

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