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Your words, they burn, and the crackling embers sear my once beating heart. All you say is truths, I know, but for once All I prayed for was a lie. Eyelids, fluttering softly over waterfalls of tears. I stifle it all and force a smile, though behind these tired eyes, beneath that plastered smile, there is defeat. You speak, your raspy voice offering a logic I can never refute. Trembling, as a brittle autumn leaf in the breeze, I collect myself. I nod, knowing you're right and don again the forced smile-- maybe it can conceal the drops forming in my eyes, clinging to my lashes longing to trail their way down my cheeks. I try to speak once, twice-- my whole mouth becomes an arid desert and I forget how to form the right words so I just smile, praying to whatever God may exist in this life to take mine from me.

Description
Your words, they burn, and the crackling embers sear my once beating heart. All you say is truths, I know, but for once All I prayed for was a lie. Eyelids, fluttering softly over waterfalls of tears. I stifle it all and force a smile, though behind these tired eyes, beneath that plastered smile, there is defeat. You speak, your raspy voice offering a logic I can never refute. Trembling, as a brittle autumn leaf in the breeze, I collect myself. I nod, knowing you're right and don again the forced smile-- maybe it can conceal the drops forming in my eyes, clinging to my lashes longing to trail their way down my cheeks. I try to speak once, twice-- my whole mouth becomes an arid desert and I forget how to form the right words so I just smile, praying to whatever God may exist in this life to take mine from me.