Handprints

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  • sentientsmile
  • is torn between new beginnings and continual longing.

Handprints

I stand in front of the oval mirror
naked
analyzing every inch
of this body he wanted
of this body I would have given him.
Oh god, would have, would have.
Tracing paths that he'll never trace now,
looking deeply into only
my own moist eyes.
How could he do this to me?

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Kaiprin commented on Handprints

12-04-2009

Very powerful. 'What ifs' of life are sometimes worse in an exaggerated way. If it didn't happen, it may never, but that doesn't change the value in you.

AshRenee commented on Handprints

11-02-2009

Annie, love, you make me cry. I want to hug you and make it better, but you're not so easily accessed. We've all thought the same, I'm afraid. It doesn't get better until you find someone who wants your heart, not just your body

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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