Mackenzie Scholte

My head rest
Upon the rise and fall of your chest
Fingers intertwined
Your lips cover mine
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She crawls out slowly,
so slowly you don't see her coming,
From the very pit of your stomach
She makes herself at home inside you
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She can't move, for the pain
Crawls through her body,
Lives in her mind
Morphine drip...
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Standing in the cold,
Facing each other
Watching our breath,
Escape into the night
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I could've said it,
A million times by now
Whispered through the dark,
Long coils of a telephone cord
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Sometimes, I want to hold on to you,
And never let you go
But then other times,
When I go to put my arms around you,
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I don't see what you do,
When you look in a mirror at me
What you see is perfect,
you say
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The pressure building behind my eyes,
Makes it hard to see,
What is truth?
Which words are lies?
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“I think I like you.”
wait…
for real?
(Is that where we went wrong?)
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my eyes are heavy
wanting to sleep but can't
for the memory of yo is intoxicating
ingrained in my mind
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I’ve heard it said,
That I am skin
And bones
And things that make
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You are the reason
That I can’t breathe,
Because when you so selfishly
Took hold of my heart,
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Sometimes I feel like there is two of me
Completely separate,
But both wanting to be free
Part of me is up,
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I want to ask you something,
But I don’t at the same time
Because I just want to,
Get over this
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I said what I wanted
Was to marry a handsome prince
And be his
Beautiful princess
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You hate these struggles
All the trials you face,
But you have to realize
That everyone has them,
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Why do these same words,
Feel so different?
What is it, that gives them
Sundry meaning?
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Before,
It felt like dressup,
We were pretending,
Just playing make-believe
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Your breath
Tastes like your last cup of coffee
You smell like the chapstick,
That you're lips stole from mine
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I've never had these feelings before
And it scares me,
It scares me
I don't know what these feelings are,
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