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Just Another Cynic
You wear a jaded smile like a chrysalis keeping you
 From falling again, 
 And I’m enchanted with your eyes that are 
 Amber like the fleeting
 Gold of a sunrise – but do you ever
 Underestimate 
 Innocence? And do you think that
 The idyllic is for 
 Children, 
 Or that it is the inexorable necessity 
 For intelligent 
 Life? 
 Because I’ve seen girls with lackluster hair
 Who had an incandescent smile 
 Unmarred by the rust accumulated from 
 Bitter tears on 
 An iron
 Heart,
 And for all of their visceral beauty next to
 Your charm,
 Still there is something in them even more compelling 
 Than another cynic disguised
 As wisdom.

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