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Letting In
Sometimes letting people in is not necessarily all it’s cracked up to be
There’s the innocent smiles and polite “hellos’”
Generic greetings and polished bows
Dresses are steamed and pants are creased
Bathrooms become your new great escape theme
Then the smiles are no longer oh so innocent
And the “hellos’” have a heavier meaning
The generics are replaced by hugs which turn to kisses
And the bows don’t look so polished anymore
Jeans instead cause they don’t need to be pressed
And bathrooms are a means of survival from the ones you thought you knew best
People are present, carrying packs of past on their backs walking into future
People show us ourselves
And the past is scrawled into their arms
Hitting their veins and crossing through the eyes
I have found that the saddest people are also the funniest,
and only those who understand complexity can communicate simplicty
And the funniest have found a way to run through life with one eye sewed,
and the other clamped open to the sun
Once you understand people
You begin to understand yourself
Letting in is hard because no one knows why the other person is breathing at the same very moment beside you steadily as if brought on by a pendulum
Letting in is hard because you have to let out
And letting out is a whole other story
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