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Love Without a Lie

October 9, 2010
By Alice_C SILVER, Edgewood, Iowa
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Alice_C SILVER, Edgewood, Iowa
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We all have dark secrets, just no one knows them.- Me<br /> &quot;If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.&quot;-unknown

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Love is happiness, emptiness, and hunger.
Those are not words known the humans.
Not vampires, ghouls, and nightmarish creatures that fall in love with humans.
But rather humans that are so lonely and so scared of love that when they fall in love these words have so much more meaning.
Happiness is something they truly have never felt.
Emptiness they are empty of guilt and freight
And finally hunger
Hunger for more.
More things they don’t know and haven’t felt.
It is then, that there is love without a lie when each other knows the lies. And that makes for no lies.

© Caitlin T., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
This piece is a part of a novel I am working on. The main character summits this into her writing teacher. She is a senior in high school.
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