poems » mina

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D U M B

i wanted to tell you

everything

i wanted to say

i loved you

i wanted you to know

you're beautiful

but how could i tell you

when i couldn't talk

my lips were sealed 

in an unspoken promise

don't ask me how

i'd get on my knees

dumbed by a mask

of protection

from what

from you

is what i ask myself

from the world

and the                                       monsters

that crawl upon it.

•mina