Don't Put Your Happiness In Other People's Hands

I placed my sense of self 

in the palms of a soul that promised me more than he could muster. 

I placed my love in the palms of a man who would watch it overflow 

until he lost sight of how to handle it. 

I placed my happiness in the palms of my everything, 

and I watched as he dropped it, like it was nothing.

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