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The Phoenix

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The Phoenix
Michael From Minnesota

I try to live life without regrets, and I had been doing fairly well in that regard.

But then I did something, and ever since it’s left me marred.

I broke up with you and now I know it was a horrible mistake.

It’s been over eight months and my heart is still filled with ache.

Leaving you was undoubtedly the worst mistake I’ve ever made.

There’s nothing I regret more. God, how I wish I stayed.

All this time later, I’d still give anything to be with you again.

I just wish I could go back to then.

I don’t know how to live life that way. I have tried and tried.

But I’d still trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday, and those feelings won’t subside.

You were the light of my life. That light has been gone for a while now, and now it’s very dark.

Nothing has come close to replacing that spark.

I appreciate the positives I do have in my life, but it’s so easy to focus on what is absent.

It’s so easy just to sit here and lament.

Of course, I know I can’t go back in time so my mind turns to the here and now.

As much as I wish I could, I can’t take back what I’ve done. But I keep wondering, somehow,

If there could be a future where we’re together again. I can’t help but hope that’s true.

I’ll do anything because this is something I fervently want to pursue.

I've never loved one like you.

I know that I can't make you stay. There's nothing I can say to change that part.

Be that as it may, I promise you my heart.

All of me still loves all of you

I know you’re in pain, but even when you’re crying you’re beautiful too

I can be your painkiller. Let’s forget the world. All of these words are my heart and soul.

Without you, my heart suffers from a gaping hole.

You are the song stuck in my head, every song that I’ve ever loved, playing again and again

Every day, I pray “please let us be together again. Amen.”

You're my one and only. In this ordinary world you’re an extraordinary girl

You’re amazing, you’re truly a pearl.

I’ll give my all to you.

I’m not asking to rehash the past. I want to make something new.

Please take my hand,

We’re in foreign land.

For all of these months, I’ve felt that our story is far from done.

Nobody said it was easy but I'm thinking two is better than one.

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