I Love Her But She Loves Someone Else

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When a man of my age shaves his face in the morning,
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who is it stares back and greets him?
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The ghost of his father long dead all these years?
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Or the boy that he was, still wet in the ears?
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Or the terrible sum of all of his fears
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In the eyes of this stranger who meets him?
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So his glance rarely strays from his chin or his jawline
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to face up to the truth of his soul.
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It's the eyes he avoids, so afraid to aknowledge
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something strange, unexpected, out of control.
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There are times when a man needs to brave his reflection
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and face what he sees without fear.
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It takes a man to accept his mortality
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or be surprised by the presence of a tear.
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It was only an arrangement, a practical arrangement.
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I forgot the first commandment of the realist's handbook.
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Don't be fooled by illusions you created yourself
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And fall in love with someone when she loves someone else.