you light their matches
you'd dim your own lights
so theirs could shine brighter
and that simple fact
is the most devastatingly beautiful
and destructive thing about you
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I thought of myself while writing this. I was always the one to put others before me, and care for others before myself.
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you light their matches
PoetKalynn Scott
you light their matches
PoetKalynn Scott