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Random Poem:

i'm not supposed to let her see me cry
Isabelle5

I picture you in the dark, in muted grief,
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the kind that sits alone, rocking itself
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with quiet arms, as if afraid that being still
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means being dead, inside and out.
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Imagining you there, from this strange distance,
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feeling your need, unable to respond
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as the leading man in this drama,
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but wishing to thrust into you, against your pain,
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the only way men know to comfort -
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safe in the quest of your flesh, we rest,
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even as our blood runs guilty -
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we see your tears but cannot stop
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to question their meaning.
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If I am the author of this sadness,
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do I leave you some hope to cling to
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or should I walk away, pretending
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that your love never touched me?
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Do you know I realize we communicated
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far beyond our skin?
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Do you know that is why my arms
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are wrapped coldly around my bones,
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rocking me in muted grief?
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If I stop, I might die.
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