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she is a sad girl, the girl
who hides behind her hair and
whose knees clack together when she's nervous.
she is a sad girl, but you wouldn't know it,
it is a confined sadness, one that she had
resigned herself to long ago.
it is a subtlety,
it isn't something you could see,
it is something you can feel
when you accidentally touch her hand
and it is so cold and soft and dry
and you say to her “Oh, you're freezing!”,
and she looks at you and smiles and says
“I feel fine”, but that's a lie,
the shadow in the pupil of her left eye whispers that it is
but her irises are so bright,
they always are,
and they distract you
so you can't help but smile back
and forget what her shadow said.
of course this is her plan, her design,
she doesn't need you to know her for her to know you