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A Little Sooner

Why didn't I meet you sooner

Before the pain, before the crazy days?

Why didn't I meet you soon enough to save you

from the fate that awaited you

and to be saved

from the one that awaited me?

 

We were young once,

we could have healed

I could have given you

two perfect tears to wear as earrings

and you could have given me the same

as cuff links or to hold my tie

 

But we did not meet until we were broken

yet even now I could, if you could still accept

have given you frost on snow as pure as light from Heaven

but you do not wear earrings anymore

and I no longer have a tie

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Jun 18, 2010
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Copyright June 18, 2010 by Timothy Emil Birch

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