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When all my words
are imprisoned by my lips
when all my calls
are contained by my fears
when all my cries
are drowned by my tears:

Hear me.

When I look warm
When I return a smile
When I sound sane—
A veil of all my desperate pain:

See me.

When verses are all I have to talk:

Read me.

And I'll be forgiven. 

#0249ma / 04272017