Don't Look Back

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If I were to turn away

my back to you

I become vulnerable.

Unknowing, anxious, anticipatory.

I know nothing behind me besides what I hear.

Words can be played

masterfully, and manipulatively,

that if you told me to take a step back

knowing that I faced away,

a foot from a cliff,

I would do it.

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