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#27

Arsonist

NescavEckWriter

Jan 28, 2025

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Let's stop playing games

Watching as it goes up in flames

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You standing there

I'm over here

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Our eyes connect

In yours I see a speck

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Of something so unknown

Something as heavy as stone

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Our life filled with photo frames

And other people's names

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Each of us has our own

But it's your heart that I want to know

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Her hand in yours

His hand around my waist

My heart is making a tour

Entering that dangerous space

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Between right and wrong

The two of us known eachother for so long

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Tell me how can this be

Why didn't your heart choose me

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All those years ago when both us were single

Why didn't the spark between us lit a flame

A sort of kindle

My heart should have known your name

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What if we tell them goodbye

I don't want to lie

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Not to myself and not to him, but it's you I want

In my slumber it's your name I chant

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How did it get this far

My head and heart is in the middle of a war

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Like a wildfire burning a path

Thinking about doing something that I shouldn't have

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Do we burn the lives we built to ashes

Seeing the flashes

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Of the memories of me and him, you and her,

We could never go there

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Breaking the eye contact

My heart just barely intact

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I don't want to go closer to you

Afraid of what we would do

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Just wanting to touch you once, feeling your lips on mine

Shaking the thoughts out of my head, it's a damn crime

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To be an arsonist and light our lives on fire

We simply need to push these feelings down and retire

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I can't just sit and watch it burn

So I will return

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To holding him, while you kiss her

Watching this event occur

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There will be no burning flames

As we stay with the people in our photo frames.

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-Denesca van Eck

-21 January 2025

-Part 1/25

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