La Doleur Exquise

You said I'm young but I'm yours. I am free but I am flawed.
I am here in your heart; I was here from the start.


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I wasn’t known for my romantic longevity but I guess things change when you meet the right person. All at once you’re consumed by this desire to be all about them: the way they smell, the feeling of them wrapped in your arms, the way your stomach drops when you lock eyes from across a room. When you’re so accustomed to falling in love only for a night, the deadly allure of lust ever present, real love is nothing short of a battlefield you’ve no idea how to navigate.