I opened up more/
than I ever had before./
Trust overcame fear.

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10 minutes later, when I hadn’t heard back, the fear returned… and I penned this at 12:08 a.m. August 9th:

Then, with her silence,/
He thought he’d been too intense,/
wanting to take risks.

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By 8:50 a.m. the morning of August 9th, I still hadn’t had a response, so this was the result:

He woke the next day./
She’d had nothing, still, to say./
Will he ever learn?