The (Turn)Around

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One chance after another,

I waited, and hated.

One mistake after another,

I remembered and regretted,

One moment after another,

I faded.

One chance,

One Mistake,

One Moment.

For the last time,

Turn this all around.

Or I will never be around.

The Missed Point

"It wasn’t just my imagination, it was ours.
Yours and mine are these daydreams,

Delusions and memories, blurred into one
Portrait of the (be)loved, fading
into the intricacies
 of our creative non-fiction.

 Open your eyes, or open mine.
Look at me, stare (at you) blankly.
I miss missing you.
 I miss missing you
miss me.

 All because I  missed.
 All because we missed."

 -@legallyblunt, "The Missed Point"
5 July 2010

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On Living With Pain

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So, you get hurt. Big deal. One thing I learned about living is that, “Pain is inevitable.” The moment you are able to come to terms with that, you realize that pain, really, is just a wonderful front act. You get hurt, once in a while, with some periods more painful than the others. The danger really is, not in not enduring pain, developing an addiction to pain. When you look forward to it, when you see it as an exciting turn of events, that is when the real problem arises.

If pain is the only thing that we are looking forward to, we need to be reminded that this is not the end point. We need to believe that we are worthy of happiness, the kind of happiness that just brushes off the occasional hurt. We should never be scared of happy endings, we should never doubt that happy endings are just that, happy endings.

Not so long ago, I got into a discussion about retail and wholesale happiness. I think, it shouldn’t be an issue. I think that we should take happiness as what it simply is… pure and unadulterated happiness. We should enjoy it without fearing that at one point, it will stop. In reality, chances are, there will be pain. But happiness doesn’t stop when you’re in pain. In the same way that love does not disappear when the person you love end up hurting you. Happiness does not cease to exist, it just becomes more challenging to recognize and feel.

Be happy. Get hurt, and choose to be happy still. Only when you start letting pain get to you that you lose your chance to live. Believe and claim it.

Live with pain but don’t live IN it.

The Deviant Love

Some stare into each other’s eyes,

while we take quick glimpses and sideway glances.

Together, they dream of forever,

Yet we, for what seems like forever, dream of “together.”

They hold hands,
and instead, we hold hearts.

And when they make love,

we wait to see what love will make of us.

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The Conversation We Never Had

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“So it was me. It has always been me?” You asked.

I rolled my eyes and blurted out, “Yes. It WAS.”

Way before you liked them, way before all your stories

Of admiration thrown at unsuspecting friends,

Way before I realized that it was never ME.

Weighing what I feel, if I still feel

and when I started feeling you wrote, “Why?”

“I was stupid.” In the same way that you were.

For not loving me. For not holding me.

Or maybe you were just being honest.

Too honest for my own sake.

“Did you ever love me?” I shouted.

With pity you answered, “Never.”

I nodded and smiled. “Kinda figured that out.”

Now fuck off. For real. For--ever.

The Guilt that We Built

But every time you look at me,
(Or is it I who look at you?)

 I see it.

 Through your eyes
You say “Sorry.”

 And through my smile
I plea,
“Set me free.”

I can finally be me
when you leave
and let me be.

 - "The Guilt that We Built"
@legallyblunt 

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The Meeting of the Minds

We used to hear I love you’s
haphazardly uttered,
displays of affection
indiscriminately shown

and we wondered, how far
should we have gone to fulfill
these spur of the moment promises
that were conditionally thrown?

After we experienced these silly
butterflies in our stomachs,
after every possible sweet nothing
had been cherished,
after all the mind games
had been solved,

How did we get
into this
then priceless,
now dragging
obligation that, sadly, got old?

What will our decision be?
Will you be with me
or let me be?


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What They Add Up To

I can see clearly now.

What used to be a series of blurred promises
Have become a series of encrypted messages
DECODED.

Now, the message has come across.
You were saying NO to that THING.
Because NO and THING add up
To NOTHING.

@LegallyBlunt,
"What it Adds Up To"

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The Imperfect Combination

On paper you wrote, “Never give up.”, so you’ll be reminded of what you already did.Then you start questioning, why two such hopeful words,’ give and up’, ended up with a meaning so hopeless.

But this is not the first time.
YOU are hopeful.
I am hopeful.

‘YOU and I’? Hopeless.

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Your World's Nothingness.

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When you have decided that what matters is how much he means to you,

You go on and realize that you really need to know how much you mean to him.

And while to you, he is everything, it does not cover the fact that to him,

You are nothing.

If only you can choose your world. If only you can be his world.

The Butterfly Effect

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Somehow, I too started believing.

Because when you hold her hand, I feel a squeeze inside my heart.

When you walk with her, I instinctively walk away,

and when you look into her eyes, my eyes swell up with tears.

The Constellation

I fall, and I crawl,
 and I fall,
 and I crawl.

 You are my constellation
not of stars
 but of scars.

 You do not need to shine,
Just be mine.

I will be fine.
You are my sign.


 - "The Constellation" @legallyblunt 25 February 2010 #Artwork by "Charlie 2010" seen at the #BenCabMuseum

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The Secret

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The truth is, I’ve been trying to tell you.

But my words get drowned out

by the beating of my own heart.

That’s my secret.

The In the Know

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I know that you know

that I know you know.

I don’t know why I know

I guess we’ll never really know.

The Wishing Us Well

So, I blew my birthday candle,

The one you brought as a surprise.

You asked what I was wishing for,

I kissed you and said, “Surprise!”

The Dark

Leave me, where the only color that I can see is the very color that can protect me.

 - "The Dark" @legallyblunt 23 February 2010

Perfectly Imperfect

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In that exact moment that darkness surrounded us,
You held my hand and promised to be my light.
I like it when my eyes can’t see and the only music
That I hear is the maddening sound of the rain.
I want to stay in the dark longer, to observe
The flickering light that shyly illuminates
Our once proud love.
I want my hand back.
your light is no longer enough.

Play Paint

You keep looking at the cracks in the ceiling,
Constantly wondering when water will seep through.
I continue watching you breathing, blinking, staring,
While I let my mind and my heart paint you.

WALLED PROMISES

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You intended these walls to be bulwarks.
I see them as promises.

You can isolate yourself as much as you want.
I will always be on the other side, waiting.
When it’s over, I’ll fly over each and every one of them,
and save you from your walled misery.

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CHAOTIC HAPPINESS

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When the laughter stops, and my smile fades,
All that will be left is your sadness.
I will protect you, drag you to the rawness of my chaotic happiness…
… away from your miserably organized mediocrity.