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After Tonight

by erinfletcher

After tonight, I will never cry for you again. After tonight, I will never try to forgive you again. After tonight, I will never love you again. After tonight, I will never long for you again. After tonight, I will never plead your case again. But just for tonight I will, again. Just once more, to remember that pain; That love; that brokenness. Bitter sweet; Sharp in my mind. Like the pain my razor brings, Masked in pain. I will remember, just this one night.
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samueltfranklin
The strong anaphora of the first five lines is cut suddenly by a deviation from that form, as well as a deviation from the action being taken: the strong iterations of what you won't do is undermined by the single admission of what you will do. The image of a razor brings a bite of physical pain along with the emotional pain implied throughout, but is not a good solution, as the poem suggests: it is only for one night. Any more than that would be detrimental to the healing process--prolonging the pain does not make it go away.

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