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You never stayed for the sunrise. Said it made you feel human. Said the light made you real. And real meant weak. And weak meant me. So I watched you leave, night after night, your shadow still warm on my skin while the sheets whispered your name like they were praying for one more hour to lie. You left me with your scent— burnt sugar and sin, like something holy gone all wrong. I could never hate the way you disappeared. You made leaving look beautiful. Like you were dissolving into the story I wasn’t brave enough to write. Your fangs— not sharp like the myths promised, but soft, slow, like truth wrapped in romance and soaked in goodbye. You bit like you meant it. Like I was the secret you didn’t want to keep, but didn’t dare release. Every kiss tasted like an oath you were too tired to swear. Every moan a ghost of something that might’ve mattered if the dawn never came. But it did. It always did. And so did you— gone before I remembered how to breathe without the blood.
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You leave before the light can stain The shape of us with something plain Your breath still lingers in the sheets But your goodbye is incomplete You don’t do dawn You don’t do truth You love like night And steal my youth Fangs before dawn, a silent bite A stolen kiss, a vanished night You take the dark and leave me bare With bleeding lips and empty air I hold the hours we never spoke The rules we bent, the spells we broke You marked me not with scars, but ache A wound too beautiful to fake If dawn could talk, it wouldn’t name The ghosts we made, the rules we maim Fangs before dawn, no promise made No light to chase, no price we paid You left with stars still in your throat And I still wear your shadow’s coat
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