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I'm afraid of the ocean

My eyes are black and beady and there’s no depth at least not at the first impression so I always thought you had a unique ability to look into the soul since the eyes are the windows to the soul because into my soul is the only place you would see a color that I never wear and an image of a place I never go because I’m afraid of its contents similar to how I was afraid for you to see me for the first time since I had a feeling you would look deeper than you were supposed to and would wade right through the massive shallow I believe to comprise my aura and see that I am all the things I am disturbed by and made up of all the things I’m uncomfortable with and deep down I am even the things that I deny about both myself and you.

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