breathed

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Poems 2010

She held her hands to her face
And breathed in.
There was no place like that memory
Of a childhood
That may or may not have been her own;
Of a smile she can never remember holding
And nothing.
Her eyes felt heavy
And her mind slipped on some mess
Of a life she was tiptoeing over every day that she
Breathed.

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