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Twenty Years Ago I Made A Mistake

I hate that others have been inside you.
I hate that your I Love You’s have gone
   to other ears.
I hate that I didn’t only allow it,
   I manufactured it.
    
And now,
I sit in deadly silence,
   alone like I always am,
like I always
   will be,

looking like a fucking fool
trying to unring
   a bell.