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Changed Locks


4.26.2013

the day everything changed

 

you called me at 4 am - you had already moved away

you told me you loved me and

my heart ached every day after that

 

I shouldn’t have fell for you

but I did anyways

I always secretly like you since the 6th grade

but you went away

so we talked long distance for hours long each day

 

As you stayed gone something went away

we don’t talk anymore but I guess I have to be okay

 

Every time I try to delete you from my memory

I fail

there isn’t a day that goes by where

your name doesn’t cross my mind

 

I hate basketball but you’re number is engraved in the passwords

that lock away the deepest part of me

 

I wish I could say it was on accident

but my “accident” happened on purpose

hoping to show the purpose of my heart

 

so you’ve moved on

that much is clear

I tried moving on but I find myself writing shit

like this at 4 am on april 26th

you’ve been my key since i can remember

but you’ve changed the locks

and my key doesn’t work anymore.

 
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