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LandminesI've lived a life of
disarming landmines hidden
among eggshells,

and that is what I see in you.

To dance around you
to smile and say hello
but to never...

You look welcoming,
your smiles like sunlight
sifting through the canopy leaves, but

we all know the myriad people who've ran in
to arms not unlike yours
and lost every single limb, so I...

I was not assigned to you.

Your soil is not one I've been commanded to search.
Your secret not one I've been told to expose.
Your threat not one I've been sent to dismantle.

You smile, and
I smile, too

while on each other's outskirts

we remain.
ThatI feel like I've told this story many times.
And I have to the point it makes me feel like a self-absorbed record. Broken.
I don't know why I feel the need to keep telling it.
And start panicking and wishing I could take everything back at the same time.

Perhaps it's just because I haven't processed it yet.
Haven't recited it yet. Not perfectly.
If I want to tell it, it has to be perfect.
And no matter how often I say it, it just doesn't feel right.

Berkeley was where I lived on my own for the first time.
Experienced adventure, truly, for the first time.
My best anectdotes came from that place
and all its streets that smell like we

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Horned masks yay.

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~StarCakeKawaii Nov 3, 2010
cant do more than faving this.
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~FallenAurora Oct 16, 2010
What a powerful expression. I just want to stare at it all day :D
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~DarkestElemental616 Oct 16, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Mmh, I just LOVE the eyes!
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~ginriru-tatsu Oct 15, 2010  Student General Artist
THIS i really like! The gaze and short hair and the way they're looking over the kickass mask. There's an elegant simplicity to it.
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~Roya111 Oct 15, 2010  Student Writer
Oh god, this is gorgeous.
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