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I wonder if...

You pulled the plugs from your ears

and listened when I cried out for help,

I would be different now.

Who would I be

if you didn’t force me into battle

on wounded limbs,

and didn’t send me into academia

in fever dreams?

If you held my hands

and helped me keep steady,

would I still be so bruised and broken?

I wanted you to understand,

but my words were foreign to you.

Like we were strangers

from distant continents.

I wonder if I were perfectly normal,

If you wouldn’t be so afraid to just love me.