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Created on: April 21, 2008
A white walled room
Your breath on my skin
I hardly know you
I let you in
I know it's lost
The hope I feel
To never lose
Right now it's real
Those poison words
They stain your lips
I take them in
We feel it slip
It falls away
We let it pass
I'll never know how
I should have asked
A frozen frame
This pain I feel
The snapshot's proof
It once was real
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