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Marisa Lu Makil Jul 2022

Take My Hands and Let Them Be (pt. 3 of Concrete)

I couldn't find the love I wanted

So I looked for it in other things

Forgot promises I'd made

To myself as a child

That I swore I'd never break

Now they lay shattered at my feet

Like glass by the train tracks

And I went on

Kept on keeping on

Hoping that the current pleasure

Would be sweeter than the everlasting

If only for a moment

But when it passed my lips

It turned bitter

Like sour milk

Instead of sweet honey,

I tasted only ashes

But still I would not be dissuaded

I continued

Seeking things that would only destroy me

Because the destruction felt so much like the love I craved

And if I could not get a grasp

Of what I thought I wanted

Maybe I wanted something else

But I don't.

I don't want it anymore

I don't want it anymore

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