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Pneumonia

for when he fills your lungs

By Natale FelixPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia

Babe, it's no surprise you showed up now

You always love to kick me when I'm down

It's half past twelve o'clock at night, and I'm frozen between fight or flight

I always seem to do this when you come around

He says, "Are you sure you don't want to come with me?

You've hardly slept since you turned 23"

I say, "I know you think you're offering more, but I wanna live to see 24

And with that you will just have to make your peace"

Didn't I tell you to leave?

You think you have your foot in the door

Just 'cause I almost gave in once before

Talk to me again, you'll be ignored

He stared at me through my window once before

And I don't even live on the ground floor

I know he was trying to scare me

But I kinda liked being seen

A far cry from the loneliness I'd known before

Didn't I tell you I'm done?

At your euphemism, I was stunned

Don't get it in your head that you've won

But maybe just this once...

surreal poetry

About the Creator

Natale Felix

Writer. As you're reading this, there's roughly an 80% chance that I'm daydreaming about someday building my own house.

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