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First Time

The first time I saw you

Your hands were covering your eyes

Your sunglasses weren't

Enough

 

Your lattice veined hands pluck

Away at chords you've

Long forgotten.

Did you sleep last night?

 

Have your dreams

Broken in

To your

Days?

 

Your tears run like

Seattle gutter water

Clearing clean paths down your

Face

 

It still hurts

There's still garbage in the drains

But you're this much

Cleaner

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Written by
delilah
Romanian
Published
Mar 6, 2010
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