Five Letters

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It's funny, the things you remember

Well not so much funny

That's not the right word

How could it be? It's only five letters long

And how could five letters

Explain the crooked laughter

That slips through the cracks in my moral code

When I think about everything you forgot

How could you remember every road sign that leads you to church

And forget that you were my heaven

How could you remember the worlds to all the songs on your favorite CD

And forget that you were my music

I know you remember my birthday

But you must have forgotten that I was born to love you

Five letters can do more damage

To a soul

When they are written on the last piece of paper

You'll fold into an envelope with my name on it

That five letters isn't so

Funny

When it's your name signed messily

Under goodbye 

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