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Created on: April 14, 2009 Last Updated: April 02, 2011
Moving heart from place to place
In gently wrapped package
Re-gifting unceremoniously
life to life a
Tape-wrapped precaution.
Tears leaked through
And blurred the shipping label
Arrows pointing down
Mangled corners
aarives on your doorstep
Somehow
Roughed up, half open
Broken
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Handle with care the dealings of men,
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Barely visible at first,
Simmering slowly, intense pressure,
Approach with caution; fear the
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I am so sensitive you see.
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I live and thrive,
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by I William
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