IT SEEMS…

YOUR TOUCH HAS DISAPPEARED
IT’S BEEN YEARS AND I STILL LONG FOR YOU
MISTAKES WERE MADE
OR
POSSIBLY
IT’S JUST LONELINESS SETTING IN
ASSUMPTIONS OF MISSING YOU
FROM THE WANT OF YOUR PRESENCE
BUT I KNOW THE TRUTH
IT WAS A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO LET YOU GO
IT WAS FOR YOUR BENEFIT
I WAS HOLDING YOU BACK AND FEELINGS THAT ONCE STIRRED UPON A GLANCE FROM YOU WERE NO MORE
YOU DIDN’T GIVE UP THOUGH
DESPERATE TO SAVE US
MANY OFFERS OF SOLUTION WERE GIVEN
I APOLOGIZE
YOU DIDN’T KNOW BUT THIS WASN’T NEW
DEALINGS OF THESE FORGOTTEN EMOTIONS
YOU THOUGHT WERE MONTHS PRIOR WERE ACTUALLY OVER A YEAR
I FOUGHT SILENTLY SURE I COULD AWAKEN WHAT ONCE WAS
EXISTED AS TRUTHFULLY AS OUR BREATH
WITH NO LUCK PRESSED ON TILL THE REALIZATION APPROACHED
NO FAVORS WERE BEING DONE BY SETTLING
YOU WERE AMAZING THOUGH
HOW COULD I LEAVE YOU WHEN YOU DID NOTHING WRONG
GREW A PART
NONSENSE
THAT WOULD BE A MUTUAL THING
BUT THIS WAS NOT
TWAS JUST ME
WHERE DID IT GO
TO THIS DAY I AM FRIGHTENED BY WHAT HAPPENED
A HOPELESS ROMANTIC IN LOVE WITH LOVE ITSELF
FALLING OUT
ITS UNIMAGINABLE AND I CAN’T FATHOM IT
SO CLOSE TO PERFECTION
AND POOF INEXPLICABLY VANISHED WAS THE AFFECTION
I’M HAUNTED
BY THIS THOUGHT THAT IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN
YET I’M NOT GUARDED
I CONTINUE TO SEEK THE ESSENCE I SO NEED
NO, IT IS NOT YOU I MISS
FORE MY DECISION WAS CORRECT AND YOU NOW LIVE A BETTER LIFE
NO WHAT I MISS
IS LOVE ITSELF
ATTACHED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELD THIS POSITION IN MY LIFE
I STAY CLOSE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS TIGHTLY GRIPPED
TILL LOVE EMBRACES ME AGAIN
I AWAIT IT
KNOWING IT’S BITTER SWEET SUBSTANCE
ALL TOO WELL
WITH PLENTY TO GIVE TO WHOEVER CLAIMS MINE FOR THEMSELVES

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