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<p>On the shame that one feels, of the wrongdoings, wrong deeds one had, committed, that guilty conscience still gnawed!&nbsp; Translated…</p>



<p><em>A Shadow that Became, My, Twin</em></p>



<p><em>Repeated My Actions, Until</em></p>



<p><em>Until You Became, Me in Form</em></p>



<p><em>Dreaming of the Death of My Lover.&nbsp; Ever Since</em></p>



<p><em>You’d, Kept the Secrets For Me Carefully</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Troubled by the Problems of the Bitterness, &amp; the Sweetness of the Love</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>The Soils with the Consciousness, in the Middle of the Abdomen</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Love &amp; Regrets Being Born, at the, Same Time</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>In the, Same Place</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>I Paid Attention to the Messages Daily, Remembered You</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>With My Ears</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Cared More than the Others, How You Shall, Keep on, Surviving</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>In this Place, with No Need to Adjust the Planets</em></p>



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<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>With Your Back to the Oceans Alone, You’d Seen———</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>A Wandering Blind Man, a Bard</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Clung Tightly onto the Neck of the Nights, Asking, Where the Heart the Eyes, Belonged</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Pressed that Famished Bones of that Whale, Where it had, Fallen</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>I Turned My Head, and, You’re, No Longer there.</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Only the Flaws are Enough</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>To Cover Up This Darkness that is, Me</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center">And so, this is on, the need to keep oneself hidden, because maybe, you’d done something awful to someone you’d cared about, and you feel regret, and ashamed of what you’d done, that’s why, you can, face up to the light.</p>
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