| Sun, Moon |
mannequill
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Some days I feel like | 1 |
I've lost my position | 2 |
as the center of your universe. | 3 |
Selfish as that is, | 4 |
it feels that I have been usurped. | 5 |
I know this is not true, | 6 |
that I, in fact, have never | 7 |
occupied that position. | 8 |
It still hurts the same. | 9 |
There always was | 10 |
and always would be | 11 |
someone else to hold your heart. | 12 |
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You've always been | 13 |
at the center of my universe | 14 |
since before the girl tore you apart. | 15 |
You've been there for me | 16 |
I've been there for you | 17 |
and it's been my longstanding impression | 18 |
that we were doomed to be close to one another. | 19 |
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I have never been | 20 |
at the center of your universe. | 21 |
I know we discussed this, | 22 |
we talked at great length | 23 |
and you reassured me of the way you feel. | 24 |
Yet I wonder, | 25 |
of the two of us, | 26 |
which has done the more for you? | 27 |
Which has been there the longest, | 28 |
has understood you the best, | 29 |
has connected with you on such al level | 30 |
that each can complete | 31 |
the other's every thought pattern? | 32 |
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I have never been | 33 |
nor will ever be | 34 |
at the center of your universe. | 35 |
He has held that place, I've learned, | 36 |
since the day he entered your ilfe. | 37 |
Rather, I am the silver to his gold. | 38 |
Never as bright, | 39 |
never as valued, | 40 |
always the easier to let tarnish. | 41 |
I am the moon to his sun, | 42 |
only discussed in the occasional poem | 43 |
whilst the sun is revered and worshiped | 44 |
as nothing less than a god. | 45 |
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