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I Can't See You

December 17, 2010
By Adeline_Jacobs GOLD, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
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"The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession." (George Sand) "Even rest should be creative, so that time doesn't flow around us, but through us. This is art." (Anna Kamienska)

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Hard to see you have feelings
When you lie
When you pretend
So often
When are you true
When are you clear
as day

I am so conflicted
You're so complicated
Hard to see you
When you're you

No one respects you
No one trusts you
"Why?" I wonder
Why?

They smile at my back
When I say no
and humiliate you
But I don't do it for
them
I do it for
me

I'm so conflicted
You're so complicated
Hard to see you
When you're you

© Rachel P., Wailuku, HI

The author's comments:
This piece is actually about a person I used to know. I remember wanting to trust him and believe he was a nice guy then he would turn around and do the opposite. It was hard to tell who he REALLY was because he kept changing.
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