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Im looking at you only through the screen
I see your invigorating smiles with him
Your eyes, your hair, your heart within
Your sweet scent and brightly fair skin

I see her through the wall
Breaking apart not a stone’s throw at all
Hands opened, it is a high fall
Fire above and over, I kneel and crawl

The nights that we sleep tight
I stay up coz you linger in my sight
I dream carelessly, shiver I might
The slower I breathe the longer the night

I stare at her with my eyes closed
She takes me away coast to coast
Her mannerisms are addicting most
We were, at a different star, almost 

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When  we were surrounded by chairs and whiteboards Books afloat and skulls on the table Light escaping from the other room Sunrays piercing thru the blinds You were looking at me the way you are looking at him Right now.