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I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.

Lang Leav

Our love story comes to me in waves, in movie stills and long summer afternoons spent under a sky of incessant blue. I still think of your eyes in flashes of color, your hands in a frenetic, feverish blur-your smile a mosaic of light and shadow. I still find myself lost in those moments of abstraction.
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Abstraction Hands Light Love Moments Ourselves Shadow Wave
Some days I feel like my soul is being pulled in one direction and my heart in another.
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Day Direction Feeling Heart Myself Soul
The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.
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Love Moments Myself Realize
I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
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Hands Poetry Reminder Yourself
I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
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Break Up Explanation I Love You Myself
Like time suspended, a wound unmended – you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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End Life Myself Time Wound
The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.
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Break Up Distance Measurement Myself
We will remain unwritten through history, no X will mark us on the map; but in books of prose and poetry, you loved me once, in a paragraph.
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Book History Literature Love Poem Remain Writing Yourself
I know love because I am in love. Because of how long I’ve loved. Because of the man I love.
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Known Love Man Myself
What is she like? I was told – she is a melancholy soul.
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Melancholy Sadness Soul
Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.
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Distance Myself Togetherness
you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
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Depth Inflict Wound Yourself
My father was a house,my mother was a home.
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Family Father Home Mom Myself
I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you. The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
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Celebration Life Moon Myself Sun Whole
I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.
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Catch Home Love Myself Plane Recognition Smile
You won’t hear from me again after today, and I don’t want you to worry. I’ll be okay. Because I have to be.
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Break Up Leave Myself Worry

I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.

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