Perfect Water

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You never

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just

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a puff of air,

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your eyes, and look

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a
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y

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from me.

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Like water, you have

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d

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perfection by

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everything that is not you.

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And you are

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j
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d

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by ever more of you,

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as the

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a
m
s

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which feed and purify a lake.

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Whenever you

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c
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y,

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tears

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r

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on your cheeks

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like almonds

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beneath your eyelids.

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And I would

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p
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c
k

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them, if they were not also perfect