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Writer's picturejane doe

cradle to casket

she knows the words to a broken heart disease all too well

caraphernalia memorized front to back, overwhelmed with things left behind from loves before

and if she doesn’t then "misanthropic drunken loner" takes my second guess


they say, the devil works hard but god knows nobody would’ve lifted me out of rock bottom but her, i’d challenge them and say, she works harder.


she never raises her hands in defeat when it comes to compassion, her perception of loss is fogged with the stain of love.


years of holding space for each other, dedication never looked, or felt, so easy


i know when she speaks out of upset she speaks with diction, words are not to be wasted when they carry weight


“i love you” never depreciates in value, even after all this time- if anything, it ages sweet


over a lifetime i’ve watched her crumble and use it as a means of inspiration for her next project, her legacy lives in the hollows of my heart, with her art on the wall; and i knowing her soft manner could take on  destruction at anytime


but she doesn’t


from playgrounds to adolescence i’ve, as they say, “attended a thousand funerals” of who you used to be. to have known, and to continue to know each version of you from cradle to casket

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