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DO I LOVE YOU?

Do I love you?
Have I seen you?
I saw your shadow in the hallway
A passing face I could not name
You were there
An anonymous gaze following me
Through my days.
I saw your hint in the mirror
The pain in your eyes reflected in mine
When I had no one else
I saw you there.

Did I hear you?
I heard the gentle music
Coaxed by your caressing fingers
From a piano, somewhere,
Somewhere in the back of my mind.
I heard your gentle music
Rocking me to sleep at night
Quieting the turbulence of my mind
Calming the storming fury in my heart.

Did I meet you?
I met you as a child;
You took on thousands of shapes,
You were so many different people
And what they all promised to be.
And in the end, they were liars.
You were always true.

Do I know you?
Is it only chance that we breathe
In the same rhythm?
Is it chance that I can read your mind?
That I can feel
Everything in your heart
A thousand times over, in only
One sorrowful blink of your eyes?
Is there any other reason for the fact
That when you’re frightened,
Adrenaline rushes through my system
And my heart pounds faster;
When you ache, when you’re hurt,
Crystallized pain melts into tears
And spills from my eyes to your sleeve;
When you’re happy, I dance
I laugh, I cry, I sing, I dance, I cry, I sing.
Do I love you?