You're A Burden

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Ah, her.

There's no fragment of the milky way

that can place the light she gives off


she wailed each night

because she wanted it to;

desperately


she called me one night

begging me to validate

her greatest fear— nobody will know you

I did


she wailed each night

because it couldn't be true;

surely


No one understands

what is means to love her;

so they don't


but what's the harm in that?

even void of those things,

she never waned

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