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 I veil it all

so

You hardly guess

And yet

perhaps

Human weakness

Dares through decorum

To seek a belonging

and I place

two options out

Repeated identities

perhaps

Your kindness sought

to deny truth of a stranger

Or perhaps you

Never gave me a thought

Beyond a polite gesture

and so

perhaps

you refused to choose between two

instead

silence

 to define

the emptiness

between 

two held out options.