Toxic Love

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We speak.
You hear her voice, not mine.
We dance.
It's not our song that you hum.

We laugh.
Your heart doesn't thump like mine.
We stay.
It's still her presence that lingers.

You promise.
My heart's flattered.
But tamed.
It knows that won't be kept.

You fall.
For her, not me.
I'm the parachute.
Not the ground.

You're lonely.
She doesn't answer.
But that's okay.
I'm here- your second best.

Your heart.
Dances around hers.
It's only the empty spaces
I'm let to fill.

I am okay.
But not enough.

Is this what I deserve?
A half hearted hello,
a grinning goodbye?
Is it really?

Someone who only
loves me for what I give,
only loves me to forget.
Well, that's not what I wished for.

So I'll walk away,
one step at a time.
I'll plunge into the silence,
one answer at a time.

Little by little.
One promise at a time.
Step by step.
One dance at a time.

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