like it or not... the present shapes the future.
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an image flashes before my eyes sometimes.

reoccurring
unwavering
animosity.

it's another memory that has never happened.

untrue, fiction, false, undeniable.

i was smoking a cigarette, staring at you with hardened eyes.
you were staring back.
dyed hair. familiar face.

i inhaled
pulled the cigarette from my lips
and breathed out.

you breathed in.

your eyes never left mine.

the raising tensions
the emotions behind things unsaid
the distance between us.

familiar.

we were older.
or so it seemed.

it felt
just like it did
a long time ago.

it felt like



misunderstanding.


truth.