how can you lose someone you've never had? i lost him as lovers lose themselves to sun, as moonbeams make their way back to moon, like a single second that returns itself to hour, as a flicker surrenders itself to flame, i lost him from same to same ... this familiar stranger who never really said his name. how can you hurt someone you've never touched? i am not capable as he is capable. i'm a ripple in his puddle, a bird-song in mid-flight, racing to meet him in empty corners. i could swear i can feel him crying. he is laughing too hard. how can you love someone who never was? i would rather i made him up. i would rather we flitted past each other like two pieces of cosmic dust. but he had to be the nearest of a thousand towers i could have viewed safely from afar. so i had to break walls to love him. so he gets to watch me tear myself apart.Birth sign: Aries
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