Honey, we both were winning
till you named it a war.

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~Half~

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No pleasure standing in beloved's gaze
And still be denied love in different ways.
Tis not better to have loved and then lost
One who holds an un-surmise-able cost.

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Ties wither away
like seasons—
One leaf less,
then all leafless.

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You were like the prayer on my lips
Effected only when it slips.

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Monsters laugh
when monsters fall.


Monsters, after all.

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The grave has no solace
Lovely earth has not your scent.
When they lower me in my place,
There'll be a smile right on my face
Beaming of all I have been lent.

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To surrender one's walls
to another one's faith—

You've laid such roads for me,
I could hardly lose my way.

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You don't need time to love.
You don't need time to even fall in love.

You just need time to convince
yourself that it's love,
Or not love.

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I give flight
to my words
with paper wings;
but only when they
brush close to you,
do they return
back to me,
carrying meaning
on their backs.

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