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Hurting

I was just trying to tell you what I think, how I feel. I never meant to hurt you. I just wanted you to see things through my eyes…but instead we both wound up hurting. I’m sorry.

They were just words, just phrases and sentences, meant to help you see my point of view. I guess it didn’t work. Why do I always have to mess things up? I feel no good right now, and I hate it.

Won’t you come back, hear me out? Let me try once more to tell you. I can make my words beautiful. I didn’t mean to hurt you; and I didn’t mean to hurt me. But I did.

Why can’t I do something right for once? I was trying, I really was. I’m always trying—but also always failing. What’s wrong with me?

Give me a second chance. Let me try again.

And maybe this time, we won’t both end up hurting. It can be different from before, I promise. I hope. Maybe…we won’t both end up hurting.

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