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protection.
My heart
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is filled
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with ferns
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so soft
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and is surrounded
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by thorns
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so sharp.
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Rocks.
I'm sorry
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I wasn't the soft ground
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At the bottom
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Of the hard world
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You fell on.
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Streetlights.
Its ten pm
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and the lights are so much brighter
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the roads feel so much longer
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and every figure
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Unwanted.
All roads lead to home,
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So I left my car doors open,
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And said you could come along.
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All signs
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Boundaries.
It started with a fence hinged with a friendly door
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And your kind smile and hope filled eyes
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For
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Finally
I've been patiently waiting
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to make peaceful mends
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with these veins and bones
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that have been l
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linen
I used to string poetry
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like linen on wire
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so soft, and yet so damp.
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My thoughts were the wind
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shrivel
This continuum of anxiety
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itching at my lungs
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choking for air
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like its intangible
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distantly
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Change.
The green leaves unfold
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like palmistry revealing history
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and future.
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Sweet serendipity
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for w
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1 am "I don't know what to think" currently.
It's not like I was trying to get away.
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I knew
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that this road
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was going to hit a
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dead end. /
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