Lies (Age: 17)

Even if I hide my feelings
And pretend that I don't care.
I could stop thinking of you
And everything we've shared.
I could say I've never loved you
And deny that I had cried.
It didn't really bother me
When you called to say good-bye.
I could pretend that I don't miss you
Or the way we used to kiss.
That I don't put my life on pause
To sit away and reminisce.
I could make it seem like nothing's wrong.
This is how I want it to be.
But even if I fool the world
I could never lie to me.

Replacement (Age: 17)

When I see them talking
I don't know what to do.
All I could think of
Is we used to talk too.
When I see him smile at her
I'd need to turn away.
It kills me to remember
He smiled at me that way.
His eyes would follow her
The way they followed me.
But I'm forced to keep in mind
It's no longer me he sees.
I'd watch them laugh and joke
While I sit away and cry.
I try to act like I don't care
But it's killing me inside.
Everything they're doing now,
He's done with me before.
But that had happened in the past
And the past exists no more.