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Hannah Jian

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

10 poems·Since June 2013
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Nothing in Return

August 28, 2013

What you said was a lie.

Me, loving you,

endlessly loving you,

For what?

 

What have I gained from you?

Betrayal, hurt confusion...

And so I ask

Why?

 

Why did I fall in love with you?

God plays tricks on me...

On my heart...

How?

 

How can it hurt so much?

Bullets piercing me

Again and again

For what?

 

What you said was a lie.

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