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Maybe I'm Just Getting Older

Poetry

Love, anxiety, hope, fear, identity, and pain are all things that we experience while growing up. This is a collection of poetry from my personal experience being a teenager and some poems about books I have read. Feel free to critique my poetry or...

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I Can't

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by TikeyTik

by TikeyTik

                                    
                                              I can't give you the best
But here I am
                          Hopelessly vulnerable
Heart on my sleeve
Under a dangled knife
                          I can't pull you apart
Or put you together

                          Puzzle pieces left in my hand
Never connected
Never put away
                          I can't love you
Or hate you anymore

                          But that's just me
The shattered remnants of 
Your memory
                          I can't keep you here
Or let you go

                          So let's stay in limbo
Always two seconds from breaking
Always one from leaving