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The Ones Who Are Left Behind


by Jerry Ratch


The women, I think,

Handle it better than

The men.

 

The men just stare

Straight ahead

Vacantly

Hollow-eyed

Lonely.

 

The women more

Fulfilled by their lives,

Having always

Expressed their love.

 

The men,

Not so much,

Who find they

Left way too much

Unsaid

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