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Your love is the most strenuous placebo effect.

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Nostalgia

Your nostalgia is lying to you.

Life is hard now,

But it was hard then, too.

You were just younger, dumber, more care-free.

If you knew then what you know now,

Maybe then you'd see.

You'd see the heartache;

You'd see the pain;

You'd see the way they lie and shame;

You'd see that no matter what you do,

You're always going to be you.

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No Angel

You say you're "no Angel"

And we're left in a tangle

Words expressed with feeling

Still searching for their meaning


Does this give you a license so freeing

You can do whatever without stressing?
Responsibilities old and frayed

Distressed, dismayed and betraying

 

Keeping everything so tightly wound

Is bound to cause a rupture

Spewing the pain you strive the concele

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Thoughts of the wife of a pedophile

Maybe not the healthiest thing 

But the healthiest I ever had

 

Such a prince charming you seemed, with

 your white van for a steed. Full of recovery 

stories and what seemed like integrity.  

 

Not perfect for sure, an anger problem and unnaturally, unwarranted high self esteem. Yet still better, more together and healthier 

than I had ever been.

 

So many nuggets of...

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