You haven't felt love until it fills your lungs
Leaving no space for air
You haven't felt love until your minds constricted
Pleading, begging for some other thought to enter your brain
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A story has three key pieces
a beginning, middle and end
But a poem needs nothing
no plot, no characters, no setting
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I hold a love I could not see
The honest words I did not hear
The times I haven't shared
I hold the feelings I haven't felt
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I hope I have a boy
To teach him things i never learned
And if I had a boy
I'd tell him about how to treat the world
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How do you describe beauty to a blind man
Do you talk about the curve of the hips
The shape of their lips
Do you describe in detail
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