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It is during midnight That I neither love nor hate you And you are pieces to an indefinite sky Halfway between a sunrise and a sunset. I am twelve hours knowing you in daylight, Infatuated by your colors With you sometimes becoming the earth And I am light to your skin, Pouring over soft textures for what you let me touch. I am twelve hours careful of the shadows That trades you in for someone else Who closes the curtains because you misunderstand the stars And wish that they'd blend in with the darkness For an evening to be perfect. So in one slight of an instance Between morning and night, I neither love nor hate you And we

There is a song in the ocean, That every time I listen to the waves, It's knowing your voice all over again And I keep hearing you return. Somewhere there is music trying to find shore And I will collect these tides. I will whisper to them love songs, Send them out for whenever you need me Or simply miss my eyes- never blue But brown and meant for you to settle in. Sing more, sing more So we can come to meet like water Where our embrace is deep And your arms are mine to swim into. No matter how far we stretch out, You and I will always be streams of each other Drifting as one substance Until the sea is left to drown, Until y

Watch me clear the shelf of your favorite things, Empty picture frames that learned to smile without you, Rearrange furnitures to no longer accommodate even your shadow And watch me replace you for books, Bigger smiles with friends I will gladly display And a new journal that will disregard any mention of your name. I will dispose you with my unnecessary pain That comes in the form of your broken promises And the shattered plans we once made while we thought This room was built to last forever, As though we'd live that long Or as if this existed. I am on a single cause to renovate, Repair mistakes with lessons on boys who think