Refract

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I sit with you
I know you
I know what lies ahead

If I could spare you
All the pain I know so well
That you will know, too

I cannot unmake it
I know you
Will come out the other end alive

You don’t know me
You trust noone
Alas, not now

You will learn one day
And you will become
As I became

If that’s the best we can be
We will never know

All I know
We are alone, now

Each one on our own
A lifetime apart.