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Unidirectional Exodus

You cannot even imagine how much I have to say to you! Yet I can tell you nothing at all.

How much I long to tease and play with you—this too I cannot quite make you understand.

The countless dreams I dream of you and me—if I were to tell them, perhaps your mind would take leave of itself before I could finish, and still my telling would not be done.

I know that beside me you would be so much happier. Sorrow, pain, logic, tension, depression...and all the other things you speak of...none of them could touch you—I simply wouldn't let them! Truly, I know how to keep someone well.

I alone would dwell in your thoughts, in your body, from the hair on your head to the nails on your toes—only I would be there! This is no jest, I speak the truth!

Among all my feelings, only you remain! You know, don't you, that this is how it is when someone truly loves!

What more can I say? You have never loved me back! So you will never understand these things.
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