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Trying to find a story I can live with

Trying to find a story I can live with

Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash

How I stretched to reach
A story I could live with
A role that I could play
When you gave our love up
Like it had never been
I tried to dis-remember
The way you so easily did

I tell myself you never showed
Pizza slices on my plate grew cold
As my friend tugged my hand
And we boarded another tra…