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sageAnxious

gray skies black water too sin in your eyes i see that too

yellow grass gives birth to new hope i take that as a sign and leave

your metallic fingers the last thing on my mind

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A speaker walks away from a relationship that has gone bad, and the poem keeps its feelings low and tightly controlled. The first stanza sets a bleak scene: gray skies, black water, and "sin in your eyes." The speaker doesn't shout an accusation. They just say "i see that too," as if they've noticed the same darkness in the landscape and in the other person, and have stopped being surprised by either.

Then something shifts. Yellow grass "gives birth to new hope," and the speaker reads it as a sign to leave. The hope seems to lie in getting out rather than in staying to repair anything. The last two lines land with a cool shrug: the other person's "metallic fingers" are "the last thing on my mind." The metal suggests something hard, cold, or controlling about that touch. The mood is detached and chilly, but there's quiet relief under it, the feeling of someone who has finally decided and no longer needs to explain.

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