eyes of disarray
love me once I said
and I will love you forever
and though quite frequently
we breathed the same air
eventually we went
our separate ways
millions of miles later
I somehow convinced myself
I didn’t deserve to be loved
and so I set a course
in the opposite direction
at first you wrote often
but never did you tell me
what I so desperately wanted to read
and when I wrote back
my sentences were filled
with lies disguised as inner rhymes
eventually all communication
would cease to be
and years later
I would find myself
reminiscing of those days
that may have never existed
leaving me imagining
what true love must be
july two thousand nineteen
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