A Letter To Edgar Allan Poe's Heartbreak

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Heartbreak. As detrimental as an atomic bomb detonating, KAPOW! However, that's the mania, it generally does not construct a sound, as tranquil as a feather falling it sways laterally until it reposes on the floor. I suppose it expounds why in the long run it harms us that much; on the lands that no one can descry the shattering of your porcelain heart, yet you can have the piercing shards slice scars all over. Now and again surrendering is by all accounts the best answer. Here and there individuals won't repose until you're decaying in the earth that they so kindly spat on. How can you avoid it? Just how do you prevent it? Simple...right? Well... not truly, no. It haunts you without an end and never releases that death grasp undermining your rely upon current amities and future connections.
I’m all alone. As the morning light blends with the bleak darkness. I twist in
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Once I was youthful and careless. Whatever I can recall is an obscure from my malapropos youth, in any case, you know...you were there. The love from you should have left me fearless, yet instead, your affection resembled a magnet simply enduring to draw dread to the surface. I felt that I could take off from everybody and they wouldn't take notice. All my friends ostracized me. I wish just once that someone loved me. If it's not too much trouble simply take my letter, it’s alright to shed a tear. Yet, in the event that you don't, I wouldn't be surprised. It's now or never, the end for me is near, I just can't explain it how alarmingly dark it is in my mind. I suppose I'm extremely lousy at goodbyes, I can't even do face to face. I just want you to know that when the wall came up between us, I saw you pleased, and I tried every single day after that to keep that going. I just needed know if you were joyful where it would lead us, well ... I suppose only downwards. I just want you to know that I still love you. From,
Somebody that you never tried to

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