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A Poem

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and so it goes
i acted without thinking again
and maybe i hurt you without even realizing
i was scorching a scar that was still healing

and love poems don’t matter
when your heart’s an abyss, a black hole,
where nothing goes in and nothing comes out
because time stood still that day for you

and i don’t even pray for myself,
that charlatan’s game,
but for you i’d pray a thousand times
just to give you some peace of mind

and i don’t even think of heaven,
that faraway plane,
but for you i’d breathe it into existence
just so you could see her again

and i’m crying not for what i can’t have
but instead the thought of you on lonely nights
when you can’t sleep but toss like you’re in a storm
as if nothing will ever be right again

and i’ll never know what it’s like to get that call
that changes everything in an instant,
no matter how you dreaded its arrival
even with every warning sign ahead