Memoirs Of A Teenage Heart

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I don’t know how to tell you

That I want to crawl out of my skin

Without making you worry.

I don’t know how to break apart

Without you wanting to fix me.

I don’t know how to die

In a way that would absolve you of guilt.

I wish you were the shoreline

Because I could shatter against you

And you would hold no blame

For the falling of the tide.

But I am human

And you held my hand 

And now your heart is tethered

To the fractures in my ribs

And I don’t know how to wilt

Without taking you down with me.

This is chaos and I want you to let it

Swallow the very last of my soul,

But I don’t know how to do that

Without poisoning your smile.

I don’t know how to tell you that I’m tired 

Without begging you for rest,

And I don’t know how to ask it in such a way

That you acquiesce my request.

Let me go, let me go,

Let me go wherever it is that shadows go.