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Sun kissed DreamsIt started hot and passionate and blinding. / Then it ran, / ran from me

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Because I couldn't write this on my blogYou have no idea how long I thought about that letter. / Or how many rough drafts I wrote, noted, and then ripped up. / Or how badly i thought I would throw up on the way there.

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Selma (Martin Luther King Jr.)One man / can really change the world, / even if it's just by dying.

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InadequacyIn another life, I was born a painter. / Gliding colors over canvas to imitate emotion. / Stepping back and marveling at the impressionism or the modernism or the realism of what I just created.

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A Flash of PassionYou. / You are 10,000 miles away / and yet, I still want to run my hands through your

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For RachelI blame you. / I blame you for my tears and the nights I couldn’t sleep and keeping my heart I loaned to you. / I had hoped for yours back, but no.

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Late Night ThoughtsThe lake, thick and dark, / Reflects the amorous stars / And casts a shadow.

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I Waited For You to Want Me AgainI cannot do this. / I fear. / I fear repetition.

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The EraserYou used to be a daydream. / Now, you're the one that wakes me up at midnight- / foggy and unremembered.

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Now You See MeI knew. / I knew from the moment you told me how beautiful / you thought I was,

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