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YOU AND I

Shay Duchaine

We’re the same, you and i.
We’ve both been left behind
in places that we were never
expecting to end up.

We’re the same, you and i.
Your heart is as fragile as glass,
so easy to shatter,
and my skin is like fabric,
tearing under all kinds of weather.

We’re the same, you and i.
Outfitted in tattered rags,
dresses carefully hand-picked and
ribbons tied with utmost care by
little fumbling fingers,
an attempt in preservation by the
ones who abandon us in the cold—
a displacement of accountability.

Maybe we’re different, you and i.
You find sorrow in loneliness
due to lack of companionship,
and i am sorrowful because
companionship feels so close to
loneliness.

In the end we’re the same, you and i.
We’ve both been left behind
in places that we were
never expecting
to end up.

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