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I'd make a list
of all the things I'd learned this year,
all the things I'd lived through underneath
tepid sunshine and dirty bedsheets,
all the love songs I'd learned the lyrics to
twenty times over, but
lists can't tell the world
where hands have held you
and how they've moved you,
lists can't tell anyone
the places you've been
bruised and broken by
your own anger,
lists can't ever say
when the magic filled the
moments in between,
and when it went away -
and I was never one for counting out heartaches anyway.
This was a terrible year.
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Dani-the-Naiad's avatar
Beautifully written poem.  I feel it.  Sending my best wishes for the new year.