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Your lips and hands contradict
Words and touch don't align
Your hands are like matchsticks, igniting a flame when you touch
Yet your heart cuts off my oxygen, extinguishing my flame
Making me cold to touch, like ice, like your vital beating heart

Your words lift me up
Only to send me crashing down
When you walk by without saying hi

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