May 16, 2006 04:24
Does anyone know who gets credit for this??
"it's not you that i love
rather a likeness of you
that i keep to fill empty space
the bad it reflects
but the good it retains
and expands
and exaggerates
such that she no longer
looks like you
except in her physical state
alas you are real
and she is fake
and so when i look for her
i find you instead
whose image she has stolen
whose likeness she remains
in my heart
but not in yours
for you have changed
or rather she has too
so that now i can't decide
which is worse to love
you who sometimes
remind me of her
whose likeness she retains
or she who has
consumed me whole
though lifeless she remains"
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like it I do. HMmmmMMmmm
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(post script)
I found it listed on a "in your own words" section in a profile.
I sent a message so that I can ask, but I don't think I will get an answer.
Me and insolent_pool coulda sworn we had heard it before.