Realisation

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I thought I'd known him too well; all those imaginary meetings, made up conversations, sewed grins and painted dreamy eyes.

I thought I'd known him too well; the gentleman who didn't wear suits, the lovely human with lovely grey eyes, the man who untwined my golden braids and told me I looked better with my hair let down.

Oh, how I thought wrong.

How did I let him taint my childhood? How did I let him attack me whenever my pen hits the paper? How did he manage to be the tone in my poems, and the tears that deformed the ink?

How did I let him in that far?

I thought I'd known him, but the tragic truth is that I don't even know myself.

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