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by Jerusha

Shall I tell you of the heart
that once beat within the walls
of my apartness?
The only way to reach inside
was to rattle the cage
of my solitude.

Then one day you came.
Breaking the shell of my pretensions,
you gently shattered the masks
I lived behind,
and tore down the walls
the years had built
to hide the pain inside.