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Dec 2013
I hold your hand
but mine has no sensation
numb and heavy
it belongs to someone else
Horror stricken
at how this feels
I cannot touch you
I cannot want you
Any more
The elements of rope
that had bound our tails
as we swam to hide
from Typhon
have been torn
Forever
like the flesh of
my soul that had waited
for you
Only for you
even while I did not speak
secrets you should have known
my whereabouts clandestine
did you forget
that what happens
on the outside
is merely fog of a
disassociated self
I only become real
in the mirror of your eyes
and smooth awakening
of your caress
You were the one
to understand my world
but today,
after being apart for so long
I am still numb
even though you hold my hand
and I pull it away
as you cry and rage
Sometimes, when I look back on experiences in my life, I think, if I were to read about them happening to someone else, I would be incredulous, yet, when I sat in his car as he recoiled from me, it had become woefully, painfully, normal. (This is spoken through his eyes.)
Diane
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Diane  Minneapolis, MN
(Minneapolis, MN)   
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