You used to write me letters
In beautiful emerald ink
Loops and swirls
(and always, I love you, a heart)
I treasured those letters
if only because it meant
keeping a part of you
(the only part you'd ever let me keep anyways)
I smashed open my piggy bank
and searched every store
Tried on a thousand
and one shades of green.
I was convinced that
if I just found the one
It'd mean neverending letters
(and neverending you
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