Fixation

Another missed opportunity
Another stolen chance
A page ripped out of the finale
The music lifted from a dance

Not wanting the world to know
I watch you through a veil of apathy
Lost in the space between the pauses
Questioning your feelings for me

Measuring the changes I see in myself
Against others I've loved in times past
Trying to label a bottle peeled
Assuming a title will make it last

For just a bit longer
Just to drag out the ache
My chest fills with more affection
With every disappointed sigh I take

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poem by Aria Siren
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Queen of Hearts

Would it be so unfair
So unjust
To ask you to stay frozen
In your own fiery lust?

To stay suspended
To stay staring
To hang yourself on a broken hope
Without me caring

To be my novelty
My fleeting joy
To be nothing more than a past laugh
To expect nothing more than an abandoned toy

A still frame
I can look back on with a smile faint
But turn the page with fingers numb
And think of your affections as nothing more than quaint

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