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You write

" I love you "

& send it to ME !

Because you are too afraid and unreal to say

" I love him "

& send it to me

Which would be the truth

And would completely open your soul

To yourself and to the reader

& then you would actually have to
Talk about this love


And this you are afraid to do

And it is this fear that eventually

Kills the love

And leads to the next phase of our typical

Love poems

( the crying poems )


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It's like how a politician says

" I love AMERICA "

Unable to look into the camera and say

" I love you , my fellow citizens "

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And so we lovelessly go on

Cowards !

Pretending to be real

Pretending we are even

CAPABLE

Of love

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We must truly try to

Overcome our fear

Of openly expressing ourselves

If we would be poets

Or

Lovers

Or

Americans


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