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I always knew that cats weren’t as loyal as dogs,

But I always thought you wouldn’t be like them,

You’d curl up in my lap just like she once did,

And I’d never question your claws sinking in,

I deserved it, didn’t I?

For reaching for warmth as I froze in your cold silence,

For stepping on your soft, delicate tail, like you said I did,

For not hiding the little scars you left behind in the name of love,

For not being yours and completely yours…

I know you own me.

You’d blink slow every night, eyes gleaming with what I thought was love,

I thought the flowers you bought me would live forever, like you told me,

But they never wilted because they were always fake from the start,

I kept them in water regardless, hoping that they’d bloom into something real,

But were we not already real?