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i know better
knowing myself unworthy
i find it hard to accept gifts
even the gifts of love and caring
friends and family bestow
but they are hurt when i protest
that i am aware of my shortcomings
my pettiness, my mistakes and
the pain my errors of arrogance
have caused them
but i must smile and accept
though my tears sometimes
betray me and i can only say
what i truly mean
in hugs
unobtrusive
we seldom hear the quiet ones
who see without comment
often without judgment
aware and sympathizing
watching for unobtrusive ways
to remove an obstacle or ease
our path without our knowing
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will be boys
using fists to define
haiku
strut their fantasy
tumble in mock fighting, then
boys rise as brothers
la sin duh
my dislike then extends to myself
haiku
lingering dislike
breeds fault finding when
i can’t walk away