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Cycles


 

 

There you are, you're not alone

And here I am

Skin and bone

If I'm waiting I don't know what for

But knowing that you left with her

Is enough to tell me

I too should leave

But the problem is

You did first

 

With that look in your eye

You left

As if you knew that you were taking my world with you

Blatantly let it follow like a shadow

Into your new life

Into your new home

Where nothing really changed

Except our masterpieces within it

Tainted

My world is still there

I feel it's with you now

Naturally it is not kept in your heart

 

Maybe in your pocket

Of the pants she takes off

In the bed where you came to know love

Where you were introduced to my world

And asked to keep it safe in your arms

 

I cannot see where it has been

But I feel what it has seen

That you've stripped all innocence

And set fire to the memories

And to the memories of mine

And to the pieces of our worlds which had intertwined

You lit them on every corner

Burnt so as to become incompatible

Then you spread those ashes onto my memory

My memory of it all

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