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naiveté

There's not enough alcohol in the world

to fill the void you've left.

Your silence holds enough torture

in itself to remain nameless and

beyond anything explored.

 

Only I know -

I've mapped it out in several pages.

 

I have mapped out the curve on

your bottom lip that I never kissed,

and below that a chin that's connected finely to the jaw bones

chiseled by God himself.

Your soft palms that sprouted out to five

different ways in which you could have touched me.

Five ways in which I could have held on to you.

 

I should have.

But I was so stupid then.

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tatiana-arredondo
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Aug 16, 2013
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