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Run

RUN
Take off and never come back.
Feelings left lost in a virtue of lust.
Take me with you, she said.
So far gone how could turn back. Immaculate love that can never be returned to what once was.
Uncanny emotions was all I ever showed.
Run, run, run, please don't come back.
The overwhelming urge to tell what's inside.
How the days go by without her at my side.
Fear for not what is, but fo...

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I’ve got amnesia and I don’t know where I am. It came down upon me

and I’ve become so confused – can’t you help me to find my mind?

Am I alone in my own helpless world with watery images blurring my

consciousness forever?

I feel a soggy mess, my limbs weighing me down, unable to do anything.

I just sit here numb to the world wondering when Ill be p...

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