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Severed Tie

 

You told me you were fine, and I came to believe you.

My feet were planted, my lungs were full.

I lived on your lies, greedily.

 

You are still my world. I am drifting through the black.

Silence from ground control.  

My air will run out soon enough.

 

🌷(5)

◄ break up

A Bird Perched next to me and Asked me to be Friends, so I said: ►

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