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Minefield Exploration

This constant presence of you.

It's been a year or more.

You've seen the ugly bits,

The confused frayed edges.

 

All my lies and hedges,

a time to sit and ponder

On whispers of who I am to people.

Your sweet **** my sweet heart.

 

That old whickering tremble

How did I get this lucky?

Bundled up in sweet cliches

Characters of my inner dialogue come to life

 

May I return to being an individual?

Once I find where I buried my Trust.

All the games and masks?

To conduct a minefield exposition.

 

My thoughts are so clean and linear

with you, I'm afraid you're synthetic.

A dog bites, it's tail

No one loves a lurker.

 

There'll come a time

when you'll have to stop hiding,

lay down your mask,

and come face me.

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atalanta-undigested
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Jun 4, 2013
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