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Brain Vs. Heart

April 9, 2012
By Doctor_elisa PLATINUM, Columbia, South Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
"There are limitations and there are protocols and I’ve been warned that I’m not supposed to threaten or beg for pieces of someone’s soul."

Richard Siken, ‘The Long and Short of It

"My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean" -unknown

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And it's tearing me up
from the inside out
I'm shattering
into shards of glass

because I like you so much
so much that it hurts
and you're making me hope
that maybe there is such a thing
as love

but my heart says
tell you
and my brain says
it's not worth the risk
of destroying
our beautiful, fragile
friendship

© Gary C., Pequannock, NJ

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