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Butterflies
<p>Beautiful Butterflies 🦋</p><p><br/></p><p>You entered my life</p><p><br/></p><p>like NEPA after a blackout—</p><p><br/></p><p>sudden, blinding,</p><p><br/></p><p>a flicker of impossible light.</p><p><br/></p><p>It was already dark then,</p><p><br/></p><p> I was stressed, drained,</p><p><br/></p><p>a body running on silence and exhaustion.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000138409.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;"/></p><p>How delightful it is,</p><p>to sit </p><p>and watch as the sun goes down </p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>You gave me butterflies.</p><p><br/></p><p>I felt them in my tummy 🙃</p><p><br/></p><p>Did I 🤭?</p><p><br/></p><p>We talked for hours.</p><p><br/></p><p>You taught me what love could feel like—</p><p><br/></p><p>letters soaked in care,</p><p><br/></p><p>hands unafraid in public,</p><p><br/></p><p>your laughter a pulse I wanted to memorize.</p><p><br/></p><p>( 📸 Flashback)</p><p><br/></p><p>I believed it.</p><p>I leaned in.</p><p>My chest, a drum,</p><p>my heart a candle flickering in windless rooms.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then,</p><p><br/></p><p>the floor dropped beneath me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Rooftop.</p><p><br/></p><p>One word,</p><p><br/></p><p>a shove,</p><p><br/></p><p>and suddenly the air tasted like metal.</p><p><img src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000163093.jpg"/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Blood in my mouth,</p><p><br/></p><p>skin shredding on concrete,</p><p><br/></p><p>heartbeats hammering against ribs like a panic drum.</p><p><br/></p><p>Eye shut in relief,</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought I died.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that was the last time I was closing my eyes,</p><p>it felt so good 🫩</p><p><br/></p><p>I survived.</p><p><br/></p><p>You did not.</p><p><br/></p><p>(SUICIDE)</p><p><br/></p><p>No warning.</p><p><br/></p><p>No apology.</p><p><br/></p><p>Only absence,</p><p><br/></p><p>leaving me stitched into pieces</p><p><br/></p><p>that refused to go.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Ambulances screamed,</p><p><br/></p><p>therapists whispered through a fog of drugs,</p><p><br/></p><p>my teeth rotted in the bitterness of nights I couldn’t sleep.</p><p><br/></p><p>I became a living echo of pain.</p><p><br/></p><p>Butterflies.</p><p><br/></p><p>Butterflies.</p><p><br/></p><p>I wish I felt them now.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Pain,</p><p>(REPLAY)</p><p>I scream sometimes,</p><p><br/></p><p>hands gripping the last pieces of myself,</p><p><br/></p><p>blood still hot in memory,</p><p><br/></p><p>pulse a jagged knife in my chest.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I called your phone once—</p><p><br/></p><p>too bad phones are not allowed in the grave.</p><p>(attached)</p><p>silence answered.</p><p><br/></p><p>No voice. No warmth. No remorse.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just the hollow cavity of loss.</p><p><br/></p><p>If I could,</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to see your eyes</p><p>once more.</p><p><br/></p><p>For you too see the dagger you left in </p><p><br/></p><p>my heart </p><p><br/></p><p>So</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't make a felony of love.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't play the victim.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't say you love me.</p><p><br/></p><p>After </p><p>Leaving me on the ground to die.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>No closure </p><p><br/></p><p>(Are you even dead?)</p><p><br/></p><p>Or </p><p><br/></p><p>Is it hallucinations </p><p>( the drugs speaking)</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>No warning.</p><p><br/></p><p>No apology.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Only absence,</p><p><br/></p><p>leaving me stitched into pieces</p><p><br/></p><p>that refused to forget.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Ambulances screamed.</p><p><br/></p><p>therapists whispered through a fog of drugs,</p><p><br/></p><p>my teeth rotted in the bitterness of nights I couldn’t sleep.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I became a living echo of pain.</p><p><br/></p><p>Butterflies.</p><p><br/></p><p>Butterflies.</p><p><br/></p><p>I wish I felt them now.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Scream.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Replay.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Pain.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Hospital smell.</span></p><p><br/></p><p>silence answered.</p><p><br/></p><p>      (Pain)</p><p><br/></p><p>Pain killers don't work on me</p><p><br/></p><p>I guess I'm immune</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Butterflies.</p><p>I wish I felt them 🤕</p><p><br/></p><p>Gravity.</p><p>(tummy tight)</p><p><br/></p><p>Heartbeat.</p><p><br/></p><p>The taste of blood.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nothing on my mind.</p><p><br/></p><p>My eyes shutting in relief.</p><p><br/></p><p>Pain.</p><p><br/></p><p>Stitches.</p><p><br/></p><p>Trauma.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I cannot forget</p><p><br/></p><p>that day.</p><p>      (MEMORIES)</p><p><br/></p>
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