It took so many years

  for me to remember

  the ways you loved me.

  What I needed

  and what you had to give

  did not match.

  From the broken child inside of you,

  you loved with all your fractured

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  heart,

  a heart I could not heal.

  Still, I carry the love

  you gave me.

  It brings me joy

  where bitterness

  once grew.