Poem: Don't Speak the Words

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Every day 
we avoid 
each other's eyes 
because the truth 
is too difficult 
to say aloud: 

You've become 
my bad habit 
my comfortable 
buffer against 
a rather harsh 
reality 

If I don't
think too hard
I don't have
to confront
this inevitable
truth

If we speak 
the illusion 
will shatter 
and the reality 
is too awful 
to contemplate

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