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understandable incomprehension

You're always saying how you want to understand me

But how can you when our conversations remain one sided-

My speech is broken by a silence that should be filled with your own

Yet I continue to speak to myself, never pausing to hear the sounds of silence

My words stringing into sentences, rolling off my tongue with such poetic rhythm

They cannot possibly make no sense, because they make perfect sense to me

I must be speaking in a foreign language- yes, that must be it

But surely in misunderstanding you would call a stop to my ranting

Instead I am met with a blank expression followed by suspicious looks

 

i don't understand

Yes, you do.

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alice-burns
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Aug 15, 2013
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