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[perfectionfades]

the night you left him,
you asked her
to hold you.

and she did.
so tightly,
the bruises she left were there
for days.

ten thousand words later,
they haven’t even begun
to fade

and you wonder

how long
how hard
how tightly

she would have held you

had he
actually
hurt more
than
your pride.

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[inkescapism]

well he would have had worse bruises that's fo sho