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Fractals - Heartless
Buy it all—buy up everything
in the universe, and that gaping hole
in your mind still lingers and
lies prone around your brain.
I saw this hole as eternity, though
I knew I could never live up to that age.
I was consumed by guilt.
I am consumed by guilt.
I—I knew it was wrong to keep going.
I said it to myself bitterly every night.
I realize now that—
every breath that I took was a disgrace
to my cowardly mind, feeding into thoughts
and actions of terror and delusion;
every inch that I walked was an inch
to fiery regret, licking my charred face with
its volcanic tongue, its needle-like whiskers.
I failed. I failed to make myself happy,
and so I failed to show you who I really am.
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This poem speaks to the guilt of loving someone that was not right for you.