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Not Today, Please
<p><br/></p><p>"I Can Relate"</p><p><br/></p><p>But you can't, though...</p><p>It's an experience you know completely nothing about </p><p>How can you relate?</p><p>You weren't there when we had the most serious of conversations</p><p>Secrets we promised to take to the grave...</p><p><br/></p><p>You can relate?</p><p>Oh... please!</p><p>Can you remember the different expressions on his face</p><p>As we talked about so many silly things on that one trip?</p><p>Like...</p><p>What would actually happen</p><p>If we lit a cigarette on the plane?</p><p>Lol,</p><p>30 whole minutes of algebra and calculus</p><p>On the probability of a plane crash not happening </p><p>If everyone were to jump at the same time inside that plane </p><p><br/></p><p>Can you even contribute meaningfully </p><p>When the entire conversation is about </p><p>How healing his bear hugs were?</p><p>And you can relate?</p><p>Do you know what it feels like to look for perfection </p><p>And completely find it in his reflection?</p><p>What it's like for the one who gave life meaning </p><p>To be the reason you seriously need healing?</p><p>Have you any idea... what it ACTUALLY feels like</p><p>To see a face every night,</p><p>And be very sure it won't be there the next morning </p><p>How it feels like to completely crash out</p><p>Because your future is now a past tense?!</p><p><br/></p><p>Tell me again,</p><p>Because you were so sure some minutes ago,</p><p>How can you relate?!</p><p>You want to know what this feels like?</p><p>It feels like words I haven't thought of yet </p><p>Each day feels like a jab at an unhealed "scar"</p><p>So how exactly does one heal from this?</p><p>You.... "can relate?"</p><p>Oh please -</p><p><br/></p><p>Not today.</p>
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