I opened my eyes
to find
a whole new world
in front of me.
I could scarcely believe
the place
from where I had come.
I opened my arms
to be
hold
this whole new world
in front of me.
And it shrank away
it shrank away
it shrank
away.
It would not stay.
I pondered my repulsiveness
in a place of immaculate loneliness.
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