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Can You Let Me In Now?

Can You Let Me In Now?

June 2, 2017 By Shelly McNamara

Time passes
Life passes
Why focus on things that bring distance between us?

I pass by you daily
Do I see – acknowledge – and celebrate you?

Do I judge what you are – who you see – and how you look?

Our lives have kept us apart
My judgment has kept us apart

I am older and wiser now
I see you so rarely
I wish to see you more

I long to share a moment with you
If only to share a smile – or word of advice
Or maybe a tear for all of the time and
Pain that has passed

I once passed you by with only a frown and a scorn
As I judged what you were
Who you saw – and
How you looked

If only I had known what is so clear to me now
All of those years since past

Can you let me in now?

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