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soaring softly, slowly, still

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Published: Aug 14, 2010

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Literature Text

_{his promise-band rubs her skin
like sandpaper on knotted wood
and heartache warbles
like the closing of a country song
as she dreams quietly
between keeping hope
and burning the bridge connecting them.

love me,
baby.
only me forever.

she begs forgiveness
though she knows she did nothing}
(nothing,
absolutely nothing)
_{wrong,
the radio in the background
humming softly
those hopes she's slowly forgetting to dream with.

and he hops the shortest flight
and soars twelve-thousand miles
only to understand
his plane landed too late
to keep her feet firmly on his ground.}