• words bubble in my throat
• maybe slip through, quietly
• but they float around your head and
• you brush them aside

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• stop pretending to care, it's one thing to do so
• but another to see them
• rest in the folds of your mind

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• this way i can't get hurt again
• the hurt doesn't go away, but still
• i can always swallow

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• it's ok
• i don't mind
• i'll always be the lesser one