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Just to see you smile

Forgive me, please?
Will you, I’ll beg.
Your eyes avoiding mine stings.
Yet still not as much as the burn,
Of when they occasionally meet mine.
Your pupils, blackened with disdain.
Your lips screaming disgust,
Without moving at all.
I yearn for the air, thick with anger,
To be cut, one smooth motion.
Broken by forgiveness.
Forgive me, please?
Will you, I’ll beg.
If possible I would take it all back.
Swallow and choke on the wrong,
The guilt, the pain,
This anguish.
And away it would go.
You would smile once again.
And although it would eat me whole,
From the inside out,
I would smile along, to keep you happy.
As long as you would just forgive my mistake.
So just forgive me, please?
Will you, I’ll beg.

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i forgive you...very descrictpive..i love it...

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