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Relapse:Crystal BallDo you remember wanting to be older? Sitting in your bedroom, legos strewn on the floor and Gargoyles playing on the TV. Mom calling from the kitchen, fueled with urgency. Do you remember looking forward to the future when you were suddenly a famous artist and had the whole world figured out and splayed at your feet? Skipping those 15 odd years in daydreamers paradise to the moment you opened your mansion door after stepping out of your car to see the love of your life’s face smiling at you.Relapse:Crystal Ball by ~birdsthatflyfree
Before you realized it wasn’t that easy or simple. Before nostalgia would slap you in the face.
Before you yearned for the simplicity that
Relapse:111112We were messes, discord and carelessnessRelapse:111112 by ~birdsthatflyfree
We were beautiful, in a way.
Can you remember?
——
Before being together was difficult
and strained
Before the loneliness enveloped this tender organ
Before you took it all out on me
Before…
——
I had a chance to love you
to hold you
A constant collection and dissipation
bubbles in spit.
——
A most dangerous addiction
nodding and floating and then we
drop
into the dark
——
Is it so easy to forget
A man in a child’s world
Touching so closely to the war in which
you have found yourself
——
I am not a toy
I am not convenient
I am not easy
waterwasted flickerflameThe warmth licks my fingerswaterwasted flickerflame by ~birdsthatflyfree
when I place my hand just
above
you(r)
flame.
—-
You are passion, flame
unbridled
a constant burn.
I left my hand above you too long in
false security.
—-
Fingers singed, it spreads to
my belly and my face
marring the sapphires
weighing water
I thirsted myself.
—-
How silly was I-
to believe fire and water
could love unhindered
and I laugh bitter
and cold.
—-
Third degree
it spreads like a heavy rash
it hurting me, baby.
I believed I could
quench you.
—-
Turned me to steam
I dissipated
this is what we wanted right?
Tell me this is what you wanted.
Sta.sh
... Amelia 
Thank you for the fav 
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