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Now that I've discovered this schwannoma,
guess I better get to know ya.
Are you a tortured soul?
Has despair swallowed you whole?
Maybe you're a jokester.
Did your sense of humor annoy her?
Alex, what is vestibular?
The dictionary is in the vestibule.
Two words now to look up.
Looks like things are adding up.
Asking a lot of questions.
But what am I really asking?
Tempting to make suggestions.
But will time be the only thing I'm killing?
Still waiting here in the vestibule.
Hoping this light has enough fuel.
Though this silence is calming.
The pain inside is deafening.
I'm not the first.
Probably not the last.
So much time wasted.
Trying to make sense of the past.
If you don't look in the mirror,
how long will your reflection last?
I let them look into my mind.
Didn't realize what they would find.
Let me ask you this question.
In it I hope you see the lesson.
If you knew they had to go...
who would you get to know?
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