If you love me
in the way that you do
must I love you.
Can I just be me?
Allow things to just be.
I think you have some damage
and I do too.
I want to see flowers open up naturally
I want to feel gladness
but I don’t think that’s what you want from me.
I feel sadness
but you have overwritten me.
I feel weakness.
So I guess it’s just going to be me.
A Patient Voice 
I come back to this because I too love to see flowers open up naturally! Come write lyrics with me!:)
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Let’s do it, we can be the new millenium’s version of Burt Bacharach 🙂
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Lol it would be a blast!!!:) I’ll let you start out… set the tone.
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How’s this, and if it’s too melancholy I can go all Janet Jackson on you.
I thought it would happen
I thought it would
but things don’t always turn out the way you think that they should….
Your turn now, or feel free to take a fresh start.
xoxo Harlon
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I tried to make you see
I did all that I could
But all things happen for a reason
I like:) your turn!!
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I know this is disappointing, but I’m glad you are clear on what you want. Watching flowers open up naturally is beautiful and healthy.
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When love comes with demands, it can be very destructive. Seeking distance, if possible, is the best recourse.
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Agreed. My no, meant no, but it got used against me. Distance…..lots of distance.
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nipples have feelings too…
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This is such a mature take on a sad reality
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Weakness il the same for all of us : try to live…
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I hear you, I am really getting tired of lessons, especially when they are not mine, but the lessons that others need to learn. I love your comments xoxo Harlon
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Realization can be a cruel learning place. These are great lines, Harlon:
“I want to see flowers open up naturally
I want to feel gladness
but I don’t think that’s what you want from me.”
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Aww this is beautifully sad. Well written as always!:)
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Thank you, honeychild, yes there is quite a bit of melancholy in this. It’s just the way it is sometimes. xoxoxo Harlon
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I so sorry:/
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C’est la vie! There is always a lesson to be learned, and for me, I learned that someone I thought was a friend, wan’t. Fuck him! Oooh, actually, that’s the last thing I want to do.
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Awww that’s so hard.:/ Ohh why must there be lessons.
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