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to burn, is to see you happier with her-
but i want you happy, so i'll bum.
eimaan
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to burn, is to see you happier with her-
but i want you happy, so i'll bum.
In just a few lines, the speaker admits to a painful kind of love: watching the person they care about be happier with someone else. The poem treats this as a kind of burning, a slow, private hurt that comes from seeing it up close.
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