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Random Poem:

Bruises
JoelJosol

You must forgive me
 1
for not writing
 2
sooner,
 3
not due to absence of desire
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but my thoughts
 5
couldn't flow through
 6
the constricted channels
 7
of my convulsed mind,
 8
their release
 9
every time
 10
aborted.
 11
 
 
How do you translate
 12
silence on paper?
 13
I thought of
 14
sending you letters,
 15
filled with blanks
 16
from edge to edge,
 17
silent
 18
like signs of the hands.
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My thoughts
 20
are clamped
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in its limbs,
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their weight
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increases the pain.
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I really wanted
 25
to write you
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sooner,
 27
but I rather
 28
that you see the bruises,
 29
yourself,
 30
left by the clamps
 31
holding down
 32
the words.
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