You remind me of a heartbeat,

That has long lost the sense of its own beat.

You embrace me like the taste of bitter that lies in the lemon peel.

Some days that I live,

I feel like a stranger in my own stream.

For the way this life has been,

I thank you for the way,

Your touch of presence has made this life feel real,

As though this tear, this heartache, this time that never stands still,

Has stood as a testament for the moment to spill,

That you will never be here,

As I once sought it to be real.

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“The more you do,

The less time you have to think.”

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“Beneath our opinions of others,

Is the opinion about ourselves smudged by the dirt of others.”

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“When our world was small, the reviews did not matter.”

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“Some found faith in churches,

Some in temples, some in mosques,

Some found it in between the hypocrisy of the truth that they were living,

Like skeletons with no sense of love, respect, dignity,

Nor empathy towards the same reflections they were judging,

With the stink of their sinful flesh that cannot accept the fact of how each of us were truly living.”

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“Forgiveness should be cheap, your presence in their life should be unaffordable.”

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Sweet were memories made in sleep,

Because in sleep there is uncertainty,

As much as there is certainty.

Do you understand the love you beseeched with all your heart?

Do you understand the love that you let go of with all your heart,

But with one drop of tears that you could never shed,

Why do you still beseech what is not yours,

Oh, terrible heart of mine?

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“There's only so much you can suppress before you explode.”

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“You will change, when you realize that change was never an option but your only clear-cut decision.”

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“I am not angry at you. I am angry at my perception of you, there's a difference.”

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