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Heartbreak (Remove filter)

Lover's Limbo

Just get over it,

Casual, callous, colloquial.

But love is like an amnesiac's boomerang

just when you thing you've forgotten

the love, and the pain

it swoops like a dragon

whose scales scar sentiments.

 

It usually hits you,

and even if caught,

it caught you by surprise.

 

Those who once captured your heart

now hold your heart captive.

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