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Circumspection
A Poem
sometimes i take the long way around
just to see how far i can go the distance
without breaking down in tears
it was a night like this
when you left, never to return,
and i just said okay to it all
because i was so sick of fighting
sometimes i think i can hear your voice
traveling to me on the whims of the wind —
but it’s always someone else, someone i can replace
it’s on nights like these
that i wish i could forget you
and every little detail about you
to gain back a shred of sanity
sometimes i wish on the stars above
in the hope that some god out there will hear
and release me from this hell on earth
it’s another night to drown you out
with everything i have on hand,
anything i can take to blot you away,
as if that will somehow save me
sometimes i fall asleep to thoughts of you,
but you’re just a mirage of the senses
that makes me shiver and quake
