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Chapter 11 - Beg me to stay.

Want to know something crazy?

I'm really not okay...

I think about just dying,

Giving up trying,

Nearly every day...

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I'm sad.

I'm lonely.

And it can get really hard to look away

When all around me I see love

But the love of my life

Just pushed me away...

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I think

And think

And think

And maybe I just think too much

But.

Sometimes this life can push

Me to the brink...

It gets so tough

But.

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The thoughts and feelings

Intrude easily

Like, what the fuck...

Sometimes I get so detached,

That I can't feel

I'm just fucking stuck.

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I feel so numb

Where my heart used to be...

Like it's beating

But I cannot feel it move inside of me...

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It just seems like everyone else found their match...

Like I'm pulling and reeling but can't make that catch...

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When I do pull one in

I have to throw them back.

Cause I only get half

And I want what they lack...

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OR I lack what they want,

I can't be what they need.

Cause I'm broken 

And traumatized

Here on my knees...

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And everyone here has their children already.

A car,

And a house,

And their lives are all steady.

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Look at me...

Still feeling

Lower than you could know...

Me, and my hat,

And my cat,

In my studio...

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Looking 

And waiting

Always contemplating

My worth and my value

I'm far from self-hating.

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But man...what's the use?

What's the point in me dating?

My heart is my offer.

That feels so degrading...

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I write and I post these to feel less alone.

Because somebody out there keeps reading my poems.

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That small sense of fulfillment

Can make life a bit less unbearable.

Quixotically living

With a love that's unsharable...

I love so deeply

That it can feel quite terribly

Overwhelmingly

Complex

But it's still wearable.

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Want to know something weird?

I shed tears twice today.

All those years...

All those fears...

That shit still gets in the way.

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And I wish I could go

Back.

I'd take back that day.

I wish you could know

I would undo that day.

I would tell you to leave.

I would beg me to stay

Far away

From your heart.

I just got in the way...

I just got in the way.

Now I'm lonely...

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