when it comes right down to it
people will fail you
they’re not to be trusted with important things
they will drop and break them
they are thoughtless and careless
they might ask forgiveness, but they’ll do it again
people will ask you to take chances on them
even though chances
are the last thing they’ll take
what they do take
is all of your time and your feelings
and they take your heart, it seems, just to break
because, after all
people are failures
they must not be trusted with things you adore
because of their knack
for pinching your soft parts
because of their knack for picking your sores
i don’t think that people
do all this on purpose
anymore, perhaps, than they mean to breathe
rather, they do it
just for survival
they think that you also have stuff up your sleeve
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