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Tag hurt love poems

When You Told Me by Hazel MacMahon

When you told me you had found someone else
I said “Okay.”
Because I found her lipstick here
The other day,

What I don’t understand, however,
Is why you thought I wouldn’t notice
Her shadows on the sheets
After you had been together,

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Walls by Patricia Cunningham

You broke me down.

You stalked my walls and found them wanting.
Then you, with exquisite ease,
undermined them.

Complicit I bade the watchmen wait,
For a signal of your purpose.
But you so carefully and quietly,
began picking and removing, unpacking and exposing,
unwinding and reclaiming all,
that you could posses.

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You Were the Best by Ruth Elwood

You were the best
Stirred up chaos in my chest
Cared for me like no one before
Became addicted to you
Needed more and more

You were the first
To love me
To make me feel high
To see me as more than “hot”
To touch me in that spot

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