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- Alive

March 2, 2014
By ALM007 ELITE, São Paulo, Colorado
ALM007 ELITE, São Paulo, Colorado
119 articles 54 photos 117 comments

I do my best work when I'm without you
In other words,
When all I can do
to bear your absence
is make you present
with my hazy
and


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technicolor
multicolored,
sepia tainted,



almost silent
sometimes mute memory,


And words
-but it's
not
enough,

It was never enough.

When all I can do
to keep you
alive.

to stay

To keep you.




OUT


of my memory


and

my mind

to bring you into the present,
to prove that you're real
because I need to tell you I really feel


in order to keep you
-because that's how
You
make me feel,



- Alive


The author's comments:
Because my outside appearance will never reflect what's inside.

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