Kerri White

Sometimes, I hunt for the depth of your eyes.
To think that just now I know
what I thought I had known for years.
It magnetizes inside of me;
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I don't think you're sure of anything
and if you were, just where would you be?
In order for you to be actually happy
You just might have to have me.
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I always fall behind
in some aspect of not being ahead
Though I'm not really sure where I'm supposed to be,
somewhere, somehow I guess I just fit in here.
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I don't know where the road ends.
Sometimes I feel like I'm not even standing on pavement.
Those days, it feels like I'm in quick sand,
and I wonder if the center of the Earth will care enough to stop me.
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I hope it's not too late
to put in a request.
You're a month away,
so maybe there's still time.
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I wonder if I smiled
If it'd be okay with you
if you were my reason?
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If everything happened
exactly as you want it to
would you even know what that might be?
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When you're not around,
I turn you into a song.
I channel through
the world of lyrics
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It's funny how what you need
becomes only what you want
funny how it crawls around
in attempts to redefine its insides,
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I swear you'll never know
exactly where my mind has been.
I'll never say how low I got,
or how I begged to get back up again.
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You just might be a savior
even though you're just a stranger.
You just might hold the shield.
You just might have the power
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"I was away from you
While you were hurting.
I chose to burden others
With your pain, instead of
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I think we’re made to miss
Anyone who once held us
Because there was a time,
No matter how short or how selfish,
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He says,
"Sometimes I swear
She can feel me
Missing her,
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it's funny how
the smallest bit
of once inconceviable change
can bend the edges
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If I'd been
a little stronger then
maybe I wouldn't be
so broken now
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You can take
the simplest phrase
(with no condentation besides
existing only as a response
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I've been doing all these things
trying to fill that slot
you used to occupy.
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If you're anything like me,
you're gonna scrape your knees.
If you're anything like me,
you'll hold in every sneeze.
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It's an instantaneous awareness
that something's there-
wherever "there" is-
but you just can't identify it.
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