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Why Can't I

November 30, 2011
By MarleyRainbow PLATINUM, Valles MInes, Missouri
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one good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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Is it over now?
why are you crying?
are you leaving me?
what?
who am I without you?
what are you saying?
you and me, were no more?
I don't know.
how can you not know?
I just don't.
is it or is it not?
what is or isn't
me, you, us is it?

Why are you silent?
I can't-
what can't you?
nothing, just nothing.
It is something, what?
never mind.
why do you do that?
what am I doing?
not telling me.
telling you what?
are we still us?
I can't handle this.
what can't you handle?
all of it.
all of what? I just want to know.
you can't.
why?
Because you can't.
I can't?
no you can not.

© Allyson S., Highland Village, TX

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Conversation between two people that keep secrets but must keep them in order to be together.
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