He Was Him: A Poem
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He literally was awful.

I understand I shouldn't be with him. If you place something so sharp against something so soft it will always get cut.

I'm happier by myself than I ever was when I was with him. I never felt like I needed him. He wasn't all that attractive.

But he had that one thing about him.

He was him.

And he did him so well.

And I liked him for being... him. There was something about him being him which was so intoxicating.

He had a presence.

I know I can find guys with better qualities than him. Guys who I'm more compatible with. He wasn't even that good of a person.

But it just feels wrong.

They don't have his quirks.

Yet, I don't think I can ever take him back. I don't think he would dare try to return either. But in the back of my mind I wonder if there could still be something there...

I think I truly loved him for who he was.

That's when I realized I wasn't the one who had lost.

He loved me for who he imagined I was.

So while my affections grew;

his shrank.

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