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  The Monsters In This World

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  Pushing to dismiss the giggles and whispers, always smiling so they never see me frown. (She's so strange, she deserves everything coming to her.) Home life, self-loathing, taunting from school, all these emotions. No escape, no release. (Look at her, she's always so miserable. S...
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  Unrequited Love

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  I wanted you to trace the curves of my cheekbones with your rose petal fingertips. You could have filled the hollow of my back if you chose to. I traced the lines between staying and leaving. I nestled in between your rib cage and memorized the steady beat of your lifeline. My leniency towards...
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  For The Boy Who Never Wanted To Grow Up

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  Your hold on me was illusive and I learned to find comfort in the smoke filled basements we spent much of our time in. It was burnt embers, cold evenings, and drug induced laughter. But how can one feel at home with the knowledge of past flings filling the room? What's one more shot to...
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  Path to Paradise

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  You watered the wilted flowers down my spine and planted flowers in my weak heart. I swam in the shallow pools of your eyes and found no remnants of dark confusion. I spilled my guts into your savage mind and found comfort and stability in familiarity. Don’t you dare repeat that I...
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  Craters

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  Supernovas behind closed eyelids. Oh my, look at the disaster we have here. Shhh, the willows will weep with you. You're not going to find permanence with warm weather. We come alive when the things that surround us wither and die, perhaps that says a lot about the nature of humans. ...
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  For Realizing Even The Stars Are Lonely

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  Once upon a time the stars kissed the sky goodnight and got lost underneath the city lights. For a city that never sleeps, all the people on the streets were drained. Not tired, but the type of exhaustion that makes you wonder what could have taken the color from their cheeks and replace it wi...
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  I Am Chilly

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  During our first fleeting existence together we had been two tangible parallel lines, never becoming one because you never did quite allow me to see the darkest crevices and corners of your soul. You were close enough to feel the hair rising on my arms, the mashing of lips, the solace of holding ont...
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  For The Boy I Never Could Quite Reach

  

  By PaigeLikesToSmile, Westerlo, NY

  The soft mumble and groan of the car as it slows to a halt in the darkness is enough to make anyone feel nostalgic for something not quite tangible in their thoughts. That's how I felt that night in the backseat of your parent's car. I felt your warm and rhythmic breathing being blow...