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Such a painful loneliness

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when she was little

She had an IMAGINARY FRIEND !

( she was       really    such a lovely child )

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She is still

A lonely girl


With

An IMAGINARY LOVER !

::

She imagines that he imagines

That he loves and adores her !

( she is trying so hard to feel real ! )

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She writes poems to an IMAGINARY AUDIENCE

about him


About his comings and goings

His soulful truths and also his infidelities

::

Somehow ( of course ! )

She KNOWS he is not real

And so she had inside herself

Prepared the FINAL POEM

in which he leaves her

And leaves her with a

PERMANENTLY broken heart !!!

( her true reality ! )

She is left seeing herself

Not as a lonely person

But as a

SACRED VICTIM AND MARTYR

to love

And it's EXQUISITE PAIN !

Proving to herself

Her worth

And ADORABILITY !

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We readers imagine

We are being compassionate and understanding

When we praise such poems

But we know we too

Are just as insecure as she is

And our lives

Just as imaginary

••

Somewhere out there

Real or Imaginary TERRORISTS !

Are approaching !!!


We huddle around out televisions

Switching between

The NEWS

&

Our *******

( there is no difference anymore )

Where we imagine

That our IMAGINARY TRUE GOD


Is working to protect our

Imaginary Goodness

For the world

::

We get older

Death finally comes

And

All chance for freedom

Is gone


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