Dear You,<\/p>\n
It has been 5 years since you left me.<\/p>\n
I am 18 now and a lot has happened,<\/p>\n
I often wonder if you will even recognise me if we met.<\/p>\n
The five stages of grief often pay me a visit,<\/p>\n
But even they leave.<\/p>\n
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I no longer sleep at night,<\/p>\n
Because I feel alive during the night time,<\/p>\n
Lie awake and chase away every approaching dream because I fear it to be my last.<\/p>\n
I stare at the night sky and recreate the moments I was too afraid to feel,<\/p>\n
So I am up at 4am trying to make sense of it all.<\/p>\n
You left me in a world that breaks people,<\/p>\n
And it finally broke me.<\/p>\n
\n
Dear you,<\/p>\n
I am still failing to fall in love,<\/p>\n
Maybe because there is no you in falling but I am there in failing.<\/p>\n
I still break my own heart when I expect too much from people,<\/p>\n
Still I am looking for that glass shoe fit girl,<\/p>\n
To enter my life and leave it,<\/p>\n
Leave me and have me searching for her the way my words search for you.<\/p>\n
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If I could have one more day with you,<\/p>\n
All I would ask is if I made you proud,<\/p>\n
If your death was worth it,<\/p>\n
Or if you wasted your dying breath telling the wrong version of yourself that you loved them<\/p>\n
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Your Present self<\/p>\n
~Baker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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