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Not all of these lines

Are going to rhyme

Maybe it's not poetry-

But this time, that's fine.

I have to write this

Even though I'm still not sure how to say it

Why do you talk to me?

Do you honestly even care?

Or is it just somehow better

than listening to dead air?

I hold no great secrets

My philosophies are pieces picked from different puzzles

and even I don't know if they really make a picture

Or if they do, that it's one you'd want to see.

I'm not as interesting

As certain people make me out to be

Talking with you who shine bright like stars in midnight blackness

Just serves to remind me

How great my lack is

And I can't help but wonder

What it is that drives this-

Do you need my shadows

To remind you how bright your light is?

Or are you really trying to cast rainbows

into dusty corners

Bringing color into places that lack this...

I only feel this:

I have nothing to offer you.

So, please.

Leave me be.

Don't try to make me think I might mean something

to you.

Because

In the end, I know...

I won't.

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Aug 24, 2013
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