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My Mom Never Taught Me How to Apologize

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By functional junkiePublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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I learnt that the lump in my throat

Was a ball of all the words I didn't say

The I love yous I swallowed

I put all the I miss yous under my pillow

And the love poems I wrote you

I hid them in my heart

I put thank yous in my piggy bank

And the apologies are in my back pocket

My solar plexus cries

Yearning for me to release the butterflies in my stomach

Ma, why can you never say you're sorry?

Now I cant even say I love you

Without feeling misplaced in my body

surreal poetry
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functional junkie

art, poetry and 9am shots.

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