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With a startling lack of reflection

I thought every word you said

To be true

I imagined every feigned promise

And cheerfully inspired fantasy

To be possible

I can look back and laugh

Though bitterly it seems

At my eager exchange of doubt

For credulity

And encumbered by those potentials

I manufactured in my head

I never once considered

With morbid rationality

All your specious words

I wanted to believe

That each endearing caress

Was mine and mine alone

And never once repeated

Exclusively for me

But nothing’s ever so possessed

And held so still for long

Though I would have held my breath

But once again analysis

Inevitably led me

To be cynically aware

Of all the misguided intuitions

I let carry me

To a torpid state of

Unsympathy