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Lonely and scared Aug. 5, 2014

  

I am lonely and scared, and should not be, all this time later, still thinking the same things when I ought to be satisfied I survived, still alive, after having tumbled out of that crazy house of love, where so many others before me never did, losing it, I could have lost my soul. I came away merely wounded, when it could have been much, much worse.

I am lonely and scared and wish I could go back and make up for it all, redo things I did badly, not do things I did worse, and do what I didn’t do and should have done.

And I wonder, is she also lonely and scared, and how does she fill in the gaps of life she feels, another face hovering over her in the depths of night, a midnight skinny dip in depths of her. A man could easily drown in those dark eyes and not regret it, forgetting entirely how to swim, and have no regrets about jumping into the deep end.

I am lonely and scared and wish I was a better swimmer, and could bask it all her pools all the time, shaking it all out of me and into her.


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