Once I met a girl in a crowd of candles
While others flickered, she breathed fire
Her eyes fell on me, like matchsticks on gasoline
Stolen glances met, thus began the scandal
With my heart set on fire, I stepped further to flame her
But the F fell too short, a mistake too lame, a disaster
Taking puffs after puffs, she extinguished me
Now I lay among the fallen, marked by one number nine
She, high on my feelings, now seeks for some wine.

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I see the universe in you, the brightest stars and the black emptiness, all at once.

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Wrote your name
so many times;

the notebook
doesn't recognize me
anymore.

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In my world,
you were gravity;

you went away,
but I'm still falling.

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In the war between silence and words, it's always the backspaced texts that lose.

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Love stories are labyrinths for me; I often find myself lost looking for your traces in between those lines.

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Bits of paper from the letters you wrote
Some have burned away, and the rest got torn
The years in them faded, just like those words you weaved
Out of smiles and frown
But still sometimes, when the sky is black and time isn't around
And I lay sleepless, staring at the blank wall
Your voice plays in my head, like a familiar song
A song long lost because I forgot the name,
and the lyrics
And suddenly the torn words come alive,
And the night is no longer long
Overwhelmed with the feeling that I will wake up with sunshine
And the realization that you'll be gone

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I see her smiling at me
Like throwing sunshine all over my face
I stand still, wonderstruck
Counting stars that aren't more beautiful
than the eyes they float in

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In the foggy mornings, my breath spells your name,
I draw a tattoo on the cold glass from it
A souvenir of a beautiful past lost
And a reminder that I'm no longer in it
As the wind blows it away

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You fluttered brightly,
raining sparkles as the flowers coveted wonderstruck
I too was a flower, just a bit less than the others,
and far

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