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I'll Not Be Nonchalant

I'll Not Be Nonchalant

I can see your nonchalant insides pushing outward.
They can be seen with these omniscient eyes.
And my empathetic insides colliding
with your nonchalant hidden ways
creates an opus of vast proportions
filling me and draining me
simultaneously. What are these drops
of salty liquid you've invoked in me?
Simply by letting me see
what's really you. I'm sorry
you pretend. I'm sorry you online fake it.
Your nonchalance cannot rub off on me.
I will continue with my stubborn empathy
and sympathy and reality. I will continue
though you've stopped. And I'm sorry that you have.
I hope you realize one day what good you do not do
by conjuring up fake shoulders
to absorb realistic tears, by trying to delude those
who see it all, by knowing you ought to give a damn
and reluctantly do not.

Julia McClenon





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