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Downfall.

I know not the cost.

The price of your sacrifice,

Your murdering your own pride.

The pride you may

Have had for me at one point.

I have never seen it,

Never heard it whisper,

Except when it felt forced

To save some sort of my “feeling”

Never felt it tickle the back

Of my inexperienced neck,

Yet I’ve always yearned for it.

This emotion, like all, I neither

Understand, nor possess,

But I still wish to know its sensation.

I wish to know what I see in others.

To not fail in your specific eyes.

I wish neither to be harsh

Nor accusatory,

I mean that.

You’ve never demanded perfection,

You abhor such an idea,

And, granted, there are things

I have done for which I should be regretful,

But again, I am unable

To understand the very idea.

Ironically, you’ve said I

Talk too much,

Am too full of emotion,

And this such paradox,

I’ve always kept secret.

Sometimes I wish to

Know you better,

To understand more,

To learn your way of thought,

A strain, an algorithm I so respect.

However, it exists somewhere,

Deep inside an earnest feeling,

On subject of your better well-being,

I sometimes wish

You didn't have to know me at all.

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Written by
andrew-p-marheine
American
Published
Aug 31, 2016
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