Decisions

Where You Are Concerned:

I'd rather shake hands and have you hold this over my head than go on with never speaking to you again.

But

Where You Are Concerned:

If it's what you want, I will cut it off. We can stop. I will stop pretending because I am better at it than you anyway.

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Five months.

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Should I call, should I write?

Do you wonder at night

If I'll ever try to fix this again?

Are you confused? Do you refuse

To let it all loose?

Does it alarm you that I have done what you asked?

To tell you the truth,

It alarms me too.

But now I'm tired,

And I want to pick this up again.