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This is a poem.

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I kind of pride myself
that I write about feelings

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that everybody has.

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I don't have any
special feelings,

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but I know this one
everybody must have had.

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This is called I Loved
You Before I Was Born.

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I have to tell
you, this is a poem

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I wrote to God or the Goddess.

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One of my dysfunctions when
you were talking about love

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is I always mistake the mortal
living beloved for the goddess,

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even when she's telling me,
look, I'm not a goddess.

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Treat me like a person.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So I'm trying.

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And I have a friend who's a
brilliant young psychologist.

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And he says to me, he
said, there's no hope

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unless we withdraw all
of our projections.

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I'm trying to withdraw the
projection of the goddess

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onto her.

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It's very difficult.
So this is called,

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I Loved You Before I Was Born.

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I loved you before I was born.

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It doesn't make sense, I know.

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I saw your eyes before
I had eyes to see,

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and I have lived longing for
your every look ever since.

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That longing entered
time as this body,

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and the longing grew
as this body waxed,

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and the longing grows
as this body wanes.

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That longing will
outlive this body.

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I loved you before I was born.

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It makes no sense, I know.

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Long before eternity,
I caught a glimpse

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of your neck and shoulders,
your ankles and toes,

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and I've been lonely for
you from that instant.

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That loneliness appeared
on Earth as this body,

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and my share of time
has been nothing

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but your name outrunning
my ever saying it clearly.

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Your face, fleeing my ever.

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Kissing it firmly
once on the mouth.

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In longing, I am
most myself, rapped.

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My lamp, mortal.

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My light, hidden and singing.

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I give you my blank heart.

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Please write on
it what you wish.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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