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Poems

Days

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

when you weren’t anyone. Days gone undercover.
Days half-dead in half-light, days under the covers.

Days hoping for a dawn that wouldn’t come, days nights
and the sun a dull, faded thing seen through nights

of curtains drawn through days of nothing but you, you
being the last thing you’d want to think about, you

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