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FEELS: THE FINALE
<p>I tried to separate them</p><p>Anger in one corner</p><p>Hate in another</p><p>Jealousy somewhere i could not see</p><p>But they all lead back to the same place</p><p>YOU</p><p>Anger was the first to speak</p><p>It told me i deserved better</p><p>That silence was eating me alive</p><p>That swallowing words</p><p>Does not make a man strong</p><p>It just makes him heavy</p><p>Hate followed quietly</p><p>Not loud</p><p>Not violent</p><p>Just tired</p><p>Tired of forgiving</p><p>Tired of understanding</p><p>Tired of being the one</p><p>Who stayed soft</p><p>While everything around me hardened</p><p>And jealousy</p><p>Jealousy was the one that hurt the most</p><p>Because it only exists</p><p>When you care</p><p>It is the fear</p><p>That what you love</p><p>Might not choose you</p><p>With the same intensity</p><p>It is imagining losing something</p><p>That is still technically yours</p><p>I was angry</p><p>Because i felt overlooked</p><p>I felt hate</p><p>Because i felt replaceable</p><p>I felt jealous</p><p>Because i loved deeply</p><p>Without guarantees</p><p>And loving without guarantees</p><p>Is the bravest thing</p><p>A person can do</p><p>I never wanted to be the man</p><p>Who questions everything</p><p>Who checks tone</p><p>Who reads into silence</p><p>Who loses sleep over maybe</p><p>But loving you</p><p>Made me confront parts of myself</p><p>I thought i had mastered</p><p>Anger showed me my pride</p><p>Hate showed me my wounds</p><p>Jealousy showed me my fear</p><p>And underneath all three</p><p>Was love</p><p>Not the loud kind</p><p>Not the perfect kind</p><p>But the kind that stays up at night</p><p>Arguing with itself</p><p>Because walking away</p><p>Feels like losing something</p><p>That once felt like home</p><p>This is not weakness</p><p>This is what happens</p><p>When a heart tries to protect itself</p><p>Without knowing how</p><p>This is what happens</p><p>When a man loves</p><p>And is not sure</p><p>If he is loved</p><p>The same way</p><p>This is FEELS</p><p>Not aesthetic</p><p>Not dramatic</p><p>Just honest</p>
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