Could have been 

Would have been 

Should have been 

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Just a step too late 

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And then we tumbled 

Down 

Down

Down 

Into the depths of each other’s insecurities

And black seemed white 

And white seemed black 

And we lost ourselves in each other 

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We took what we needed and discarded the rest because we knew what was worthless. 

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I withstood dreamy eyes, blue like the sky, remembering all of the broken promises but hoping for something better. 

You withstood emotions that took up too much space and smothered you until you had to come up for air and find someone else. 

We withstood stormy words and lips that betrayed, wanting our past to be anything other than what it is. 

We stood strong when words and deeds didn’t match and we framed our successes around things that didn’t matter and ignored the things that did 

Until it was too late 

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Then we swam in the regrets of yesteryear 

And we pointed fingers and drew new lines in the sand that would be ignored and erased and redrawn as we screamed and cried and shot accusations across the bow to see what would hit the heart and do as much damage as we felt when it hurt the most. 

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You are ready to move forward as I drown in the memories of things I didn’t even know I were part of my story. 

I am walking through the quicksand of false promises and a future that was robbed from me. 

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We are 

Legs entangled 

Lives entangled 

Minds entangled 

Souls entangled 

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I don’t know where I end and you begin.