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THE LOVE YOU CANNOT SOLVE
<p>You wanted me so badly,</p><p>but each time you came close—</p><p>just a step away from<span style="background-color: transparent;"> reaching my heart,</span></p><p>the line blurred,</p><p>the atmosphere resisted,</p><p>and something unseen</p><p>faded you away…</p><p><em>again</em>.</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/8fd3dd6e-a2ff-4eda-9df5-0012f51b563b.jpeg"/></p><p>You thought I was in love with you.</p><p>That must be why you stayed,</p><p>why you tried.</p><p>But my love denies yours.</p><p>You have never seen me</p><p>with the "she"</p><p>yet I tell you—</p><p>I am madly in love.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oops… you misunderstood!</p><p>Not with you.</p><p>Not with any version of "she"</p><p><br/></p><p>Now you’re confused</p><p>by the formula my love follows—</p><p>because…</p><p><strong>It is a love<span style="background-color: transparent;"> you cannot solve.</span></strong></p><p><br/></p><p>Just so you know....</p><p>I am in love..</p><p>with the vision of <span style="background-color: transparent;">the silhouette o</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">f Him.</span></p><blockquote><strong>I am him.</strong><br/><strong>And he is...<br/>the presently absent version of me—<br/>The one I am yet to become.</strong></blockquote><p>He is not missing.</p><p>He is just ahead.</p><p>He is not moved by every smile,</p><p>nor pulled by passing feelings—</p><p>because he understands t<span style="background-color: transparent;">hat...</span></p><blockquote><em><span style="background-color: transparent;">...<strong>some desires<br/></strong></span><strong>are distractions w<span style="background-color: transparent;">earing the face of destiny...</span></strong></em></blockquote><p>And me—</p><p>still building,</p><p>learning the language of self discipline,</p><p>I gather <strong><em>momentum</em>—</strong></p><p>And I chase him til<span style="background-color: transparent;">l thy kingdom <strong><em>come</em></strong>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p>So if I seem distant,</p><p>uninterested,</p><p>hard to reach—</p><p><em><strong>it is not pride.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>It is focus.</strong></em></p><p>Because I see him afar—</p><p>the man I am becoming,</p><p>and I will not lose him <span style="background-color: transparent;">for a moment (your moment) </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">that cannot last.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p>That's why your attempts</p><p>to tear us apart</p><p>keep going down....<em><strong>flat</strong></em></p><p><em><strong><br/></strong></em></p><p>Again, You are baffled</p><p>that all your moves <span style="background-color: transparent;">leave me unruffled.</span></p><p>You cannot decode it.</p><p>You cannot undo it.</p><p><strong><em style=""><br/></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>It is a love <span style="background-color: transparent;">that cannot dissolve.</span></em></strong></p><blockquote><strong><em>THIS IS A LOVE YOU CANNOT SOLVE..... </em></strong></blockquote>
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