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While I Was Grieving

While I Was Grieving

A poem for lost loves

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Crystal Jackson
May 14, 2022
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A poem for lost loves

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

I can’t list all the things
That make me sad, but I’ll try

The relief in your voice
When you said goodbye

The way you hate me
Even through my grief

The way you took my heart
And with it, my belief

The way we stopped 
Truly being friends

The way every love story I fall in 
Inevitably ends

That you can doubt …

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