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Poking the bruise

Bugs Duggan

I still miss you
I still think about your hands and how they used to fit so perfectly into mine
Would they still?

Late at night, I find myself looking at old pictures of you
Are you still that same person
I suspect you're not
But I have no way back in

Those bridges were burned long ago
And probably with good reason
But still I poke the bruise
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Submitted by bugsduggan on July 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXX ABXX XBX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 335
Words 69
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 3
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