Given Poem by Nia Schexnider

I have already given


and I don't ask to receive.


.


I give my time,


I give my jokes,


I give my hugs,


I give my tears,


I give my years,


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It only surprises me that this is not how you see it.


.


I am like an alien here- in these mountains.


Far from my family.


Far from the idea of home.


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Then today you said, that none of your previous relationships worked.


and you said that we won't work.


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I guess that should have been a given.


.


but it wasn't because you were all TAKE.