A Thing of Anguish
by Joanne Marisa Leow
If you touch me 
I might burst into a pool of pain 
dissolving completely into a whirlpool 
of my despair 
 
I see now 
so clearly 
in my sobriety 
what was before 
clouded with a diaphanous 
tenuous thread 
        of fondness 
 
such achingly perfect vision. 
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