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This Is The Part When You Tell Me To Stay

When we were four you'd have Peach Melba and you'd let me lick the lid.
We're young hearts and foolishness if you cooked them in a soup, and people drink us down like city air. We're me & you now, we're more than we've always been.
This is our innocence in symbols and dodgy type-face, this is the love we lost in the back of your truck.

You're not sickly, you're sweet. You're like parties & fruit pastels and the after-taste of a good night out. You're perfect to me, and you always do as you're told. Can I live without you? Yes sir, indeed. Would I want to? Good God, no.
This is the last dance, the last letter, the one-shot-too-much. This is living tonight for the last time.

You always scored with seconds to go, and I couldn't waste my pulse to live up to your challenge. I'm beaten down with cotton wool and kisses, my childhood friend, and now is my chance to test you.
This is the fail at the fault-line, when the last train rolls off it's tracks... This is the world I wasted on you.

And we used to PLAY Chicken, and we used to FEED chickens by the barn on Summer 'noons... But I'm chickening out now the grain's all gone, and the words are out my mouth before I let go of your collar...
These are the tears I don't want want you to see... These are the plurals that we tossed from tongue-to-tongue...

This is the part when you tell me to stay.

Author notes

Title Prompt~
This was fun to write. I'm still uninspired... But childhood sweethearts kinda got my creative juices flowing.
Thank you for the muse! <3

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  • X-Escape Artist-X
    November 5

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    Wonderful. HI know u dont know me but it saw ur Comment on one of Sheli's poems and just had to check ur work out. :-)


  • Telfu
    October 22

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    I feel guilty for not commenting on your poety enough, and with that said I'm gonna start commenting on as much as I can ^^

    So I really like your imagery. I mean, it's always been something you're really good at, but I especially like it in this. And, naturally, it's very clever. I just love the line "Can I live without you? Yes sir, indeed. Would I want to? Good God, no." Genius ^^And the word-play in the last stanza makes me hot /wink.

    All in all, I loved it. Not as much as I love you, mind, but still it's incredible. Well done and good luck in the contest <333 xxx


  • rainboots
    October 22

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    Imagery was great. Really painted a picture in my head. Thanks for entering.