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When fish fear water and birds fear height; when night fears darkness
And day fears light; when time fears clocks; when you desperately want
To tell me something about you you are not allowed to;
When I am meeting with your eyes in the ways permitted not;
When I am coming to you but never cross your threshold;
When you pursue me, only catching my words within your breath;
When you are under your own surveillance, but I'm failing
To find myself behind the bars of my bones; when I won't dare
To repair my house, though the sky has crashed, the rain is touching
Me in my sleep, the wind is stealing from me; when you remain
Beyond my grasp but behind my back; when through black tunnels,
Trapped subway trains say secrets stuttering -- tell me, what is then?
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