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Feb 2013
I think of your new hands on my hips,
Only for a second only for a passing,
But when I try to mark and label the feeling flickered in that moment,
Experience veils my mind from the ability to distinguish my emotions.

I think of how a particular cologne no longer lingers,
Of how it no longer holds the poignancy of my young love,
Now I begin to distrust my ability to distinguish adolescent friendship from the once experienced love,
Experience lends me incapable of knowing my hearts intention by that flickering,
As I think of your new hands on my hips.
Once we experience our first love and its loss, how do we once again try to distinguish feelings of friendship from feelings of something more?
Ris Howie
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Ris Howie
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