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We Are Poetry

January 5, 2022
By LFlack24 BRONZE, Blue Mound, Illinois
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Poetry is the understanding 

that you can love someone 

so bad 

it feels like 

your heart will stop beating 

and still not like them

 

And the slow realization 

that just because you would die for them 

doesn’t mean they’re the reason you’re alive. 

© MacMillan

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