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For My Own Sake

By Kati Frazier

I shed a tear for you.

Not for your sake,

but for my own.

To tell myself

in it's crystalline shape,

that I am not too gone.

I shed a tear for you.

Like so many before that

you shed for me.

Compassion wrenched out,

streaked and aching.

You never said how

cleansing this could be.

I shed a tear for you.

A raindrop against my skin

so slow in falling.

From my blue clouds

that squeeze and blink

to hold rain in.

I shed a tear for you.

I pray it be not the last.

hot, it bathes my soul

in deep emotion.

That is not mine own,

but is yours of the past.

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