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City Reflections
Light contours the rough edges of your face
This is how I imagine your heart.
They told me I was meant to be more than this.
Buildings caving in around me, pearls floating through the air,
I am not so sure.
This city has two colors today, gray
And the red of the awning that shelters us over head
While we wait out the rain
I cling to your warmth, and you push me away.
Honestly, were you worth giving up perfection?
I have seen the letters etched on your fingertips
Ripping through your swirling veins
And the cries of “Unloved!” that silently
Hang between us
You’ve always loved these days, guilty.
Slick and fast and impersonal
Call me naïve, but this life doesn’t make a home.
“The city is gorgeous today,” you say.
“You’re gorgeous today.”
You’re close enough to touch me, and you know it.
But you won’t, and I want you.
It seems as though we are always waiting out the rain.
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"All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."- Daisy
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