love: stratified and strained ii, a poem

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                               Is it the necessity
                                  of a more precise definition
                                   or
                                    is it the possibility
                                 of a more precise definition??

                                 Thinkers bend
                               all their powers
                                 to the task of expressing
                              a half-intuitive dichotomy.
                           Yet I knew you loved me from the beginning;
                               all the knots you tied yourself up in
                          were merely a means
                                  of telling yourself
                               otherwise.
                                  Perception starts
                               with imagination
                              but what you saw in me
                                 was real
                             before you lost it
                               to the ghost.





                                        -matt shadow iris


they say that breakin' up is hard to do











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