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Intentionality

I’m sorry that

I called

And said it was an accident.

 

Something about you

Makes intentionality feel

so exposing.

 

You aren’t allowed to know I was desperate to hear your voice.

You might think im

Desperate enough to accept whatever you will give me.

Again.

It will never be enough.

 

It scares me that you might be right.

 

I am desperately devoted

To you.

🌷(2)

missing you

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John Marks

Mon 28th Nov 2022 00:58

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

T. S. Eliot

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