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The Misanthrope in Moonlight


Somebody Somewhere
for Sam and Joel
Someday, when someone tells me
out of the blue that they love me,
somehow I'll stop myself from turning
and walking away the way I sometimes do
when love threatens to blow apart my heart
with something too much for me to hold inside,
something like--but not exactly like--fullness,
something like an emptiness of emptiness,
something that I know we all deserve,
but something that far too many of us fear,
something that somebody somewhere
once told me was happiness.
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