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Ordinary Shadows

So many of us walk through life Filling our days with empty actions Just longing to be loved. With an admirer in our shadows Too awestruck to speak up Too nervous to be seen. And we too blind to see what we were looking for.

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Published: May 23, 2016
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Notes: I wanted to capture how many of us see ourselves as nothing special, when to others we are the sun and moon, and just as out of reach as the stars...

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