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Paperweight

I made a paper airplane
    From the paper heart
              You made me.
    But it took off
And flew away on it's own--
                    Make it again.

I wove a paper chain
     For the paper doll
          You made me.
    But she broke the chain
And hopped the next breeze out of town--
                                         Make it again.

I found a paper-trail 
    For the paper-clip
         You made me.
    But it snapped in two
And the paper-trail lost all control--
                               Make it again.

For all your paper-cuts
      And all my paper-work
Our relationship--
          On paper--
Seems pretty...paper-thin.

But then again,
     Looking through the shreds
     Of our notepaper love
     I see, in between the lines,
The truth of my paper rhymes:

You made me.
Make me again.

Copyright © Shannon Taft | Year Posted 2015