Mr Hyde

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It casts everyone else into the shadow:

The over-powering presence of the larger-than-life size

That my childlike heart has attributed to you.

And you hate it.

It makes you feel like an awkward teenager

Who's grown too tall too fast

And doesn't quite know what to do

With his objectionable limbs.

And you don't get why my brain suddenly shrinks in size,

nor why my heart beats twice as fast,

and why my cheeks glow noticeably pink,

The minute I sense your presence.

I'm difficult for you to handle

But you just love the adulation:

The idea of the larger-than-life size that my incorrigible heart

Has attributed to you.

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