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What I see

The two bodies
Moving together
Up and down
So close
I watch from afar
An outsider
looking through a window
And seeing myself
Or rather
Where I could have been
Instead I stand
Shiverin in the heat
Head burning
From emotions Zig- Zagging
Through my brain
Flooded with tears
That wont fall
For no onr is to see
And no one is to know
Not even myself.
And through
The hazy surface
The image still before
me.
The two bodies
Happy in each other's arms.
Living life.
Growing up.
In that moment
Of blissful
noise
And confusion.
Where I am on the outside
Looking in
Swallowing tears
That flow like
A swelling river inside of me
Consuming me
Until I have lost
Myself
Until I look away
And pretend
My heart's not breaking

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