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April 5, 2012
By pernidole BRONZE, Gilbert, Arizona
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"These violent delights have violent ends / and in their triumph die, like fire and powder" Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet

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So pale
So far
So close and
I’m so very different than you

I cannot win you dearly pallid
Ivory sullen and ghastly
Face sunken in your love in me
Your cheekbones are visibly silver

I only wish
I could lose you
My transparency child

© Jessica H., Bluffton, MN

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A poem that goes hand in hand with my other one, Black.
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