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I'd like to introduce you to bae Not like Manila Bay, Or bay leaves, Or a weird way of saying "bye," B.A.E. Before Anyone Else Bae is so "babe" we lost the second "b" Just to be that much closer Bae, It doesn't have to make sense, okay? Just gotta feel right And you're probably wondering When this is going to start sounding More like a poem... Truth is this is more love letter Than prose No, This is the button to my bones Shaking every hollow space Between my heart and rib cage I am stone cold Faded Wading in emotions so deep I used to drown in them daily You see These currents have carried me To shores I never would have seen Had I not crashed into them completely Bae, Promises to carry me Across every threshold into forever Because I am worth an eternity Bae loved me Before Anyone Else Buried And Emptied me Before Bottles And Escapes Tempted the fate of our love Bae is not a person -Rather a state of mind An amount of time Dedicated to redisc

Such a shame He could only see you for your pain But you found a way To see beauty in these emotional blemishes Instead of blaming scars For his lack of acceptance Your lack of patience Womxn, You are lovely and loveable In all your imperfections Your heart emanates brilliance Most others will have to live their lives without Let them miss you, And miss you with their bullshit too Let them wake and smell the reality of your absence The coldness of their bed Stewing in the space they asked for The emptiness of messages re-read Drafts left unsent Real conversations left unspoken On hungry tables Quality time in short supply Distant thoughts multiplied Whenever we are divided for too long