I loved you once. Wasn’t for too long, Because you forbid me from it, remember? It started, and it stopped. It began from a word to a wink And ended with a wink and your word. I loved you, not for too long. Let’s talk physics: If the x-axis was time, And the y-axis was […]
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maybe happily ever afters aren’t always about poisoned apples and princes riding white horses coming to take you away. maybe it doesn’t involve green grass and woodland creatures. our version looked like wet pavements and a sea of strangers but we found magic on empty beer bottles and indie music the kind that will still […]
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Do you know how often I still think of you? How many hours I’ve lost scrolling through the shrine of your Instagram; how I am an addict for the rewind of your stories. Do you know that when it’s late and I’m sad again I open your Facebook page, a reflex more natural than reaching […]
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While my friends, all beautiful with diamond promises on their left hands, live out overflowing love and beginnings, I’m here in this empty, secret, overgrowth garden that is the middle of me. Hope waits at the gates as I swing myself over and over the green pond at the center and rub fallen pink rose […]
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Maybe in another life we were there Waking to a new sunshine Looking up at a different set of stars Just you and me Maybe there we were sure Out of our mind certain That we’re both chaotic But in love nonetheless Maybe you’d look at me And I would look at you With neither […]
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Tessa is leaving the past behind and going off to college, distancing herself from her high school boyfriend and her overbearing mother. She pictures a quiet existence of homework and seclusion, until one party—specifically one boy— changes her life. Filled with romance and intrigue, After is an unforgettable, blush-worthy tale of betrayal and secrets, a […]
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In my dream she is a baby still, cradled in my arms, sheltered from any harm that might come her way. As I hold her, she looks up at me, and I can see she feels the depth of my love— never wavering, ever constant. But in reality, she is twenty now and has left […]
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January 27 was the five year anniversary of the first poem I ever wrote you. So, basically, my love for you could have raised a kindergartener by now. I’m sure if I really wanted to, I could pull out the notebook I spat all of my words for you into and I could re-read all […]
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His words hit her unexpectedly, full of accusations and hatred. They brought the insecure girl back to reality, to a world full of deceit and lies. No longer did she feel the comfort she once felt with him. He turned into the boy that did not take care of the girl he claimed he cared […]
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