After (Fictional Poetry

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After

Everything

Starts to calm

Down

And somehow

You are expected

To move

On

The scars remain

Both the ones

Seen

And the ones

Only you

Can feel

But you learn

To pretend

Just to get

Through.

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Life moves

In blurred

Images

and a fear

You did not

Know before

But you have

Learned to

Paste on a smile

And pretend everyrhings

Okay.