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**published in The Quixote 1996, Schertz, TX

now I am Real 

i tried to follow you
   where you went
but i wasn't sure which way to go.
you just
       became
  f a r    a w a y.
i reached out
 like a child catching sunbeams --
         you slipped through my fingers.
i encircled you in my arms
i cared and listened
i did everything right . . .
but you left.
	finally
  i stopped
            i waited
                     i cried
yet you never returned . . .
         thank you.

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