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We Were Two Kids Who Didn’t Know Anything
Poetry
don’t you see, babe, we’ve got all these dominoes in a line —
ready to collapse on top of each other in perfect destruction
you said you’d marry me someday when the time was right,
and I was the blushing girl next door who wanted your everything
your mother said you were no good, you’d never make a girl happy,
and I wanted to prove her wrong and show her who knew what
at least you weren’t like your dad, gone before the age of three,
never seeing you on any birthdays or holidays all these years
don’t you think it’s telling that we had all these hopes and dreams,
yet we had no idea how to make any of it happen for us
you said I was your number one, the only girl for you at all,
and I believed you and your pinky promises in the dark
maybe all we wanted was something our parents could never give us,
so we chased after every hint of a star as if we had no other choice
and I still remember that last night, the moon so full it was a globe,
when you told me you were running away — who knew where
