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Claire

You didn’t deserve what you got
Because while others forgot

I remembered the girl with flowers
Ingrained in her hair of umber.

Nobody told me that one day you would disappear,

Not from death, but from birth as those who swore to their savior,
Held you pinned to the dish as you soon found out

There are places where even god won't go.

I can’t explain the broken pieces of my heart

Laid between you and I as I saw you, fragmented as well.
Gone was the girl who believed in the good of just being,
Tied to the father who now played the role as the cross.

People ask why religion is a sore spot for me.

Before I could raise myself to speak I remember what

The umber-haired athiest in the Prussian blue hoodie told me in
grade five:

“Sometimes life just freakin’ sucks.”

It’s been 10 years since I saw you, and you didn’t move away.
I heard from a friend of a friend that you had a son now,

A son who also happened to be your brother.

Your son being you brother and your father being his.

My friend told me you said he was born in the name of god.
I just wish you were still just my friend named Claire.

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