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I have to put you away again My Dear and Special Friend Deep inside of my folly, a Pleasure having you visit My Irish melancholia You’re here, I am not sure why I think it’s not locking up These months you stopped by The loss of my mother While things pour from my rocking cup Out you spilled in the end Like mom’s love and my dead friend Things I walled inside Buried by sadness or pride Came calling once again I pulled your cards and letters Yes, Honey, I kept them all I pulled out my unsent writings Words you never saw And remembered their tidings It has been good not bad Recalling what we had I’d forgotten that youthful world I’d forgotten my precious girl I know it wasn’t always sad You were so kind to me You had a generous bent You are harsh when you vent And said things that still sting But your apologies were meant I have to put you away again And I am sad to see you go But not like back then This departure does not hurt Bittersweet because I know How important you are to my life Really you’ll never know I probably wouldn’t be me If it wasn’t for the lessons That you showed I have learned actions matter I have learned to catch the signs That fly by over my head And to know them as tread For gripping love in the mind I missed those with you, Sweetie Not out of meanness, or upset Just inexperience Just youth and being needy I wasn’t ready yet Maybe a lesson you can Learn from this silly man No tests, no false criterium No dates for write-off delirium Love might not be on plan And maybe you learned too You are worth pretty I love you’s And hundreds of sonnets heard Just being mere words Doesn’t make them untrue Oh, my old Friend, we were So fiery, so fast, burning forests inside Earthquakes shake me even old Everything put aside Everything put on hold And to your words about our destiny I reacted poorly and too much I pressed a girl of nineteen With words of matrimony I think she felt Pan’s dread touch I also want to say it right For the bad I did, or lied And said I did, I won’t exorcise, Until you say it’s alright, My guilt for causing your cries My biggest fear of all Is that one of us will fall And shuffle to the next world With you thinking I never cared About you and what we shared But I have to put you away again It has become a distraction It affects my work, my wife, me too You still inspire overreaction Even when you, had nothing to do With my mental infraction But somehow you are now a joy Not a pain to avoid Not a guilt to forget I am glad you have come by and set A spell with your old sweet boy Thanks so much for playing With me in my mind’s sight Thank you for a while staying Inspiring things I write That then I should’ve been saying I hope you come back My Friend, to stay again Deep in and out of me I will come stack And be happy to see All our memories After I put you away again
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