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things i need to say to ciaran
in the back of my head
understanding the only part of who I used to be that I’m still proud of
and it was you who made me see the world as it is
rather than how I felt about it
and it was you
who brought me out of myself and gave me a reason to belong to something
like you,
something really alive.
in the back of my head, cleaning, brushing the dust off
boxes
watching tiny flecks of memory catch seconds of light and fade
to sparkle behind my eyes,
and you
it was you behind my eyes,
behind my voice,
behind my smile and everything I wrote.
in the back of my head
I still wonder what you would think of me now
in all my confusion
my afraid-unafraid
my watching and avoiding and undoing.
what you would think about this and that and him.
I don’t know.
it’s you.
in the back of my head.
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