As If You Meant Nothing

Contributor: Desley Obman

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Day by day
I watch you kill yourself.
I watch you drown yourself in drink
I watch you razor your lungs
With little doses of death
With smoke and self-loathing
Burning your way toward nothing
As if there were nothing
Worth saving
In this world
In this life
As if you were nothing
As if you meant nothing
To no one


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A poem of love for one who doesn't love what I love.