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"Bear with Me, It's Been a While"
It’s been a while since I’ve felt another
As close as you always seem to be.
A while since I’ve thought these words
Without snide remarks slipping through.
It’s hard to make it seem real,
When I have a reputation for anything but.
A reputation which I resent
Because it only expresses false impressions.
Those impressions you know quite well;
They’re ones you hated in an instant.
Hating me, the embodiment of everything,
Everything new, and wrong, and resented.
It’s a façade I’ve built with these hands
That have cleverly crafted so much more.
These very hands with which, at first,
I had quickly pushed you away.
But now I know I’m not that man,
Not a cold and calculating cynic.
I’m a man with a heart
And I’m attempting your art of love.
I may not be deserving
Of one so unswerving
But maybe you can look past that
At least, just for me?
It’s been a while for me,
But, being frozen in time,
I suppose it’s been a while for you, too.