TO AN APPARITION

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How could you forsake

The affection I

Gave to you?

How could you forsake

The affection you'd

Given back?

How could you forget

The affection we'd 

Mutually felt?

Aren't artists

And writers

Good enough

For you anymore?

Are the strange ones

Scaring you

That much?

Why did you detest

Black people

So sudde...

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Roses are red, violets are blue,

When I think of your love for me, I lose love for you.

What does my love feel like to me?

Being surrounded by beauty that only I can see.

Hidden behind my smile is someone fragile, flawed, and easily broken.

I showed you all of my healed scars and one by one you ripped them back open.

Again and again, my mind retreats to happier days while I ...

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The piece that is missing

is the piece of my heart

that I threw like a stone

when our love fell apart.

Without looking I threw it

as far as I could.

Now I’m stuck with the fact…

that I’ve lost it for good.

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