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Starry-eyed Lullaby

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 “Stay away” He said

“Everything in my path is falling apart, and I’m trying

To do all I can to stop the pieces from touching you”

It’s a quote he probably heard from an Indie movie

The words seemed too poetic

Even for his lips

Acting was his fad, but it was mine too

I can distinguish

The real, the raw

From the staged

He often said, rehearsed

The sweetest of lines

Whispered into my neck

Like airless lullabies

That nestled into the pores of my skin

Etching into me

Promises of a lasting love

So I say to him, I’ve already been touched

The broken pieces are going to live inside me forever

In an Ideal World You Would Have Fought for Me

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There is something tragic about being a hopeless romantic

Something tragic about seeing stars as they were forty years ago

Twinkling at us

As if they are really in the present

The night sky is full of

What once was

Stellar memories haunting us with their glow

Your olive eyes are coated in these stars