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Poetry: I never knew

You hid it well

I never knew

All the pain

He gave to you

I never saw

A single bruise

Or saw the violence

He would use

You never said

How much hate

He had until

It was too late

I wish you'd said

What he could do

I'm sorry that

I never knew

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