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bcg poetry Jan 2015
I'm here and you're there.

-a five words ******* tragedy (the plane ticket you gave me is sitting on my mantle and i stare at it through the 2am tears)
bcg poetry Jan 2015
return the text
answer the call
she knows she's been difficult
but it's been a hard night for her

she is so close to the edge
but you could turn it around if you just
returned the text
answered the call

you don't want to wake up tomorrow in a world without her
don't let your frustration get in the way of
returning the text
answering the call
bcg poetry Jan 2015
and i'm happy you're in my life again and i'm happy we have eachother again but you have to understand that sometimes we can't talk

not because i don't want to
i always want to talk with you

but sometimes peering into your life for too long reminds me that for a little while you didn't want me to be apart of it
bcg poetry Jan 2015
What other ways are there to communicate?
How can I love you so much and be so far away?


we've played this question and answer game over and over and over again
i know every answer before you even say it and you know my questions before i even ask them

I AM TIRED OF TELLING YOU ABOUT MY DAYS
I WANT YOU TO BE MY DAYS
bcg poetry Jan 2015
you thought it was so odd last night
you told me that something i had said had hurt you
and i spent the whole evening trying to make it up to you
you kept on repeating it wasn't a big deal and there was nothing to make up for

and it took me until 3:24am last night to realize
you didn't understand.
you didn't understand what it was like to feel so awful due to someone else's unhappiness

when you are hurt i would do anything
make any joke
sing any song
fight any person
to make you happy.

You wouldn't.

or maybe you just lost that instinct when you fell out of love with me
bcg poetry Jan 2015
Us
More than you, I miss us.
I miss who we were,
when we were.
bcg poetry Jan 2015
Her first text is at 10:13pm, from a friend, who needed to tell her that she still loves him. She reminds the friend calmly that he wasn't well and it was better for both of them to end it even though it felt like hell. He hurt you, she told the friend, he hurt you over and over, it'll be okay, you can cry on my shoulder.

Her second text comes in at 12:09am, from an old flame. He had one too many that evening and was going a little insane, "I miss you," he said and he heaved a long sigh, "I just want one more night, please one more night." She somehow managed to gently decline and called a mutual friend to give him a ride. She told the old flame that everything would be okay and to take a couple aspirin before he called the next day.

Her first call of the night, at 1:53am, comes from an old roommate who had relapsed and was back in that horrible place and the roommate was lying on the tile of a bathroom floor she couldn't recognize and her number was the only one she could recall after her fall. She talked down the helpless girl for an hour until she was well enough to get up from the tile. The roommate called her mom and got picked up and she hung up the phone, relieved to have some time for a nap.

She got two more calls that night and hundreds of more texts, but she got a couple of hours of rest before the next day of telling others everything was going to be okay.
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