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Tears


These tears Less fluid More daggers Cutting and obscuring the face If anything can kill, It’s this pain And uncertainty The body feels everything But the heart, nothing Clouded over by choice The pain Still inside Sitting like a cancer Unsuspected, until all at once: In curable Taking over And killing
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