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By Who I Don’t Know

they told me that I needed to know
what to do if there was a problem
I didn’t know they’d make a problem
out of trying to tell me

now who do I get my nightmares from?
are your problems from the people
in the nightmares
that should
have given me that pain
or do my nightmares come from you

are you the one that gave
me that pain
without trying

maybe you were trying
maybe you weren’t
I can’t think of it that way
even after all these years

I just have to think
that mistakes were made

by who,
I don’t know


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