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Icarus

Icarus

To have kept you

To have kept you
Would have
cost me
Nothing
To have lost you
Cost me
The world
I had envisioned
 
Only held you
For a moment
The greatest
I have known
Your touch
Melted my cynicism
Now I’m unsure
What I have left

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