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You, the Critic | A Introspective Short Poem

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You, the Critic

You, the Critic

My way of moving —
Your way of seeing.
— You, the critic.

My power to speak —
Your weakness to understand.

In everything,
My skill in comprehension —
And in that,
Your silence.

And I…

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