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On Sleepless Nights By Joy Harold Helsing I wonder what I might have done to hold together our unraveling I felt our margins start to fray and loosen at the seams so long ago but though I grasped and pulled and yielded to your will until I could not bear the strain I never found the thread to make us whole again it was not what I said nor what you did it was our fabric that was worn beyond repair yet still I care and still on long and sleepless nights I finger that raw edge where once you were |