tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81803693999155489912023-11-16T09:09:40.719-08:00Mindful Madnessmindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-81570490050802664302013-04-14T15:27:00.000-07:002013-06-13T12:50:09.152-07:00sunset stainsI bear the weight of words<br>
that linger<br>
between<br>
hellos and goodbyes<br>
bittersweet breaths<br>surrendered sighs<br><div>that fill the spaces <br>
that eventually become too vast <br>
and too cold <br>
to return to <br>
where eyes will never meet<br>
again<br>
and where souls will never touch <br>the skies we paint <br>
in silent shades of indigo <br>
and subtle strokes of raw sienna<br>
because <br>
even the sun bleeds <br>
and stains the horizon <br>
with mourned memories<br>
of last kisses <br>
blown wishes <br>
and promises <br>
too painful <br>
to keep <br></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-34265490521472419192012-10-28T11:51:00.000-07:002014-04-27T09:33:46.953-07:00Dunia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">he lowered his gaze</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">looking away </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">from the whet</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">of her whimsical want </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">longing</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">listening </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">to the unfurl</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">of her rhyme</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">he brushed the loose curl </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">of unkept time </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">from the carefully carved curvature</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of her porcelain spine</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">his will waned</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: small;">his heart stained</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">her silence seducing</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">to the tune of his name</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">revealing </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">temptation’s noose</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">her eyes like beacons</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">bore him a ravenous rush</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: small;">bittersweet intoxication</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">t</span><span style="font-size: small;">oo weak to hush the whispers</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: small;">undressing his soul</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">he splashed truth onto his mind </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">desperate to find </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">a safe place to escape</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">a home to unwind</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">begging time to coalesce </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">his limbs did digress</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">he found himself bound</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">to the sirenous sound </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">of her lies</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">he fell prey to her test</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">suckling poison</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">possessed</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by the prowess </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of deadly illusion</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">how quickly the transfusion begins</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">as sin circulates</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">and darkness debilitates</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">such</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">is the promise</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: small;">of Dunia </span></span></div>
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mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-55182923088683800472012-10-19T12:55:00.003-07:002014-03-16T16:06:32.508-07:00Second Chances<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">there is beauty</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">in second chances</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">in stolen glances</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">hope waiting to be
found</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">'round the bend</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">where the sound of
hearts</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">that take the time
to mend</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">lend to us the
courage to believe</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">once again </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">to weave our wounds
of war</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">into transcendent
tunes that demand more</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">pushing us to soar</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">above fields of
forgiveness</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">child-like dreams</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">holding hands of
hope</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">leading us back to
innocence</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">awakening the
believer within</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">where possibilities
begin to bloom</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">and gentleness
embraces the fears we once gave in to</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">too soon </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">where tears fall a
little gentler</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">and moments are
just that</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">moments</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">where trust comes</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">naturally</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">and smiles warm us</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">unintentionally</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">and souls surrender</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">to the stillness we
can now call home</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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free from need</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">we bleed beauty,
not pain</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">we walk along the
shore of surety</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">fully knowing</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Times;">none of this has
been in vain</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">one day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we'll put down our shields<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">of judgment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and open our hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to “them”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we'll stop mocking <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">those <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">who are different<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">stop talking <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">about things we don't understand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we'll reach out<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">with sincerity to<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">those <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">who isolate themselves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">from the world<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">never truly being able to imagine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">the pain<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">that stains their souls<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">leaving their lives<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">shattered<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">full of holes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">full of emptiness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">one day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we’ll realize<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">the weight of our words<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">only then<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">will this madness end <o:p></o:p></span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-27366824239195096352012-10-18T10:14:00.002-07:002012-10-18T10:14:50.076-07:00In Between <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">between reality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">between shadow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">between silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and scripture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">lies doubt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">between rest <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and desire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">between poetry <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">between hunger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and trust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">a child<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">without a fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">without a reason<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">without a place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to hide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">how hesitation does confide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">in the soft silhouettes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">that ride the waves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">of persecution <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we lose our balance<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we lose our sight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">gasping for touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">raising our glasses <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to the wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">we wait<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">anticipate the descent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">of daylight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">into anything that feels real<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">daring to defend <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">our darkness <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">I close my eyes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">and hold my breath </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">waiting for dark </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to unveil me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">I touch my scars</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">picking at noise</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">waiting for dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to exhale me</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">I trace my path</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">where love once bled</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">waiting for dark </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to complete me</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">I mask my pain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">retreating in words</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">waiting for dark</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">to release me </span></div>
mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-75539438621123562942012-06-03T07:25:00.000-07:002012-10-28T12:00:05.368-07:00Saturday Morning<br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i woke with a sense of urgency</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">perhaps</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">knowing the beauty of a brand new day</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">perhaps</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">knowing not to allow a single moment to slip away</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">perhaps</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">knowing how much my entire being longed to play</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">and so i did</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i held my boy in my arms for a long time</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">he kissed my nose</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">he giggled</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">in that mischievous way only a six year old knows</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i popped sections of a tiny tangerine into his mouth</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">he lit up</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">as if to say</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">this</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">mama</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">is how we’re meant to love</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i played scrabble with my older boy</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">he asked me if it was ok to put down the word ‘fart’</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i replied with the kind of laugh every grown person should have the chance to know</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i chased my youngest boy around the dining room table</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">my fingers wriggling</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">preparing to feast on his belly’s bouts of hysteria</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">stop mama!, he yelled with a huffing seriousness</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">only to get a head start on me and tease, come and get me now!</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i sipped ginger tea with a teaspoon of raw honey</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i played, and sung with all my heart, Puff The Magic Dragon on my guitar</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">I wrote poems</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">about butterflies, silence, love, life...</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">I wrote poems</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">to sprinkle seeds of gratitude deep in the soil of my soul</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i sat at the keyboard by my bedroom window</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">and let my fingers fall onto the cold white keys</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">resting there for a while</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">smiling at the silver squirrel balancing on the bare of winter’s hush</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">i felt a rush of longing</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">missing the canopies of leaves</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">missing the song of the blue jays</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">missing the smells of summer</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">kissing my moment</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">my eyes closed</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">my fingers fell</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">into unrehearsed rhythm</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">conducting my breath</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">on Saturday morning</span></div>
mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-31186785127534972242012-03-03T17:07:00.002-08:002012-03-03T17:10:28.547-08:00mint tea and slivers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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my heart heavy</div>
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weighted </div>
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with a love </div>
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i was not yet strong enough</div>
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to hold</div>
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all i wanted </div>
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was to grow old with you</div>
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sip mint tea</div>
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under the stars</div>
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swing on the porch</div>
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listening to the lull of the cars</div>
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on the highway</div>
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smiling</div>
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reminiscing</div>
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about moons that waned</div>
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while our souls rained</div>
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childhood dreams</div>
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somehow </div>
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while i was carving my heart</div>
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to fit your key</div>
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i lost sight of the me</div>
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you needed me to be</div>
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and so our love grew grey</div>
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and drifted away</div>
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and what i wanted you to say</div>
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was that no matter what</div>
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it'd be ok</div>
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we'd be ok</div>
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but that's not the way it works, is it?</div>
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shit happens</div>
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vows break</div>
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who woulda known</div>
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that an innocent mistake</div>
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might take us out of the fold of forever</div>
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turning a lifelong endeavor</div>
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into yesterday's news</div>
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i'd like to believe</div>
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we choose our fate</div>
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that as we grate bone</div>
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to fill fleshy fears</div>
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tears might bleed us back to clay</div>
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i laugh</div>
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seriously</div>
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who would stay</div>
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to wade through knee-deep madness</div>
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who would have enough patience</div>
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to bear the weight</div>
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of static sadness</div>
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who wouldn't run</div>
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at the first sight of silence</div>
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who wouldn't break free</div>
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from chains that only stain</div>
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sentiments better suited for postcards</div>
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alone i stay</div>
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collecting shards of half truths</div>
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painted just the way i like them</div>
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sparkly</div>
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sharp</div>
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slivers of hope </div>
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that still sting when I breathe</div>
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and all i can do is believe</div>
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clench fragments of dreams</div>
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crazy glue promises we made</div>
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to the blades i hone chaos with</div>
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wrap myself in your voice</div>
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<br /></div>
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make the choice to sever</div>
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to weather the storm inside my gut</div>
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and for all but a moment </div>
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of false sanity</div>
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not regret stripping myself down bare</div>
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and as i prepare to take my leave</div>
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careful not to breath</div>
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the dust of my own devastation</div>
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without a single moment of hesitation</div>
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i walk away</div>
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<br /></div>
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into the darkness of light</div>
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no longer willing to fight</div>
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for this</div>
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<br /></div>
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eyes closed</div>
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as the distance between us grows</div>
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i blow you one last kiss</div>
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from my heart</div>
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<br /></div>
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so it is</div>
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that we must part</div>
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start to live again</div>
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heal the wounds of want</div>
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holding tight to the hope</div>
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that one day</div>
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we’ll free ourselves</div>
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from ego chokeholds</div>
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and learn be friends</div>
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again</div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-61117256874314627372012-03-03T08:56:00.001-08:002012-03-03T16:58:08.233-08:00the poetry industry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1">the poetry industry</span></div>
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<span class="s1">where hearts have become commodities </span></div>
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<span class="s1">and pure love is now an oddity</span></div>
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<span class="s1">we are the prodigies of our words</span></div>
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<span class="s1">begging to be heard</span></div>
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<span class="s1">by any soul</span></div>
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<span class="s1">that may create the illusion </span></div>
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<span class="s1">of us feeling whole</span></div>
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<span class="s1">we seek to fill our man-made voids</span></div>
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<span class="s1">relationships</span></div>
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<span class="s1">like toys</span></div>
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<span class="s1">tinkered with </span></div>
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<span class="s1">and tossed</span></div>
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<span class="s1">we seduce our own minds</span></div>
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<span class="s1">till all humanity is lost</span></div>
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<span class="s1">to the rhythm of delusion </span></div>
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<span class="s1">we succumb </span></div>
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<span class="s1">to intoxicating profusion </span></div>
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<span class="s1">of false gods</span></div>
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<span class="s1">our egos </span></div>
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<span class="s1">we stroke </span></div>
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<span class="s1">invoke </span></div>
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<span class="s1">praise</span></div>
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<span class="s1">held in a delirious daze</span></div>
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<span class="s1">until death </span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-42799516218449915782012-02-11T12:03:00.000-08:002012-02-11T12:04:51.828-08:00echoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">of sharing </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">our gifts</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">we judge</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">one another</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">only revealing </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">our own </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">inadequacies</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">instead</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">of giving</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">our love</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">we hoard </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">waiting </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">ourselves</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">more</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">til the shore no longer</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and the lighthouse</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> of hope</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">a grey mound</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">off of which</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the sound of regret</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> with empty promises</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">of revival</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you were never</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">your mind</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> always racing</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to far off places</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the many faces</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> of poetic impulse</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lured yourself</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> into the rabbit hole</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where you stole a taste</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of someone else's reality</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">simple love cannot compete</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with the bittersweet scars</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> we carve with words</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">when all we long for</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is to be heard</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">reassured</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cured</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> of violent voids</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that bleed marrow</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to dust</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lacing lament</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with the kind of lust</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that thrusts us</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> into flames</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of futility </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">yet</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> i </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wait</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by that hole</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">peeking in </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">reaching in</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">steeping</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">into silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">picking</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at the rust</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that corrodes</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">my heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i start to wonder</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">if you’re ever coming out</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fierce winds blow</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">self loathing minds</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to places prayers dare not fold</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fantasies fray</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">where temptation’s sold</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">scalpers inflate</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">egos rise</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we row our reasons</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we know our kind</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">quick circumcision</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of fears that bleed</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m the only one I’ll ever deceive</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">tangled tricks</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">pick up sticks </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a dangerous game</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of squandered shame</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">one wrong move</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">foundations sway</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lose a turn</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lose a life</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">lose yourself in blame</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">simply refuse</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to answer his call</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that’s his job</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to make you fall</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to poison your palette </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to blind your ears</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to busy your todays</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with yesteryears</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">tomorrows</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that may never come</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and if we busy our todays</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">on the run</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">from ourselves</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">from Truth</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">from silence</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we may never hear</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the answer</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">he wrapped my bleeding heart</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">in a fine piece of gauze</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">gently placed it next to his</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">and in that breathless pause</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">between life and death</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">his heart covered mine</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">with a delicates skin</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">his love</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">with one unadulterated beat</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">my tear stained gauze fell to the floor</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">our hearts now beat as one</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">and mine does bleed no more</span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-23678444735942221382012-01-09T23:35:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:35:32.459-08:00fluff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">forgive me</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">for i know not how to love</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">at least not the way poems tell you it should be done</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">or the feel-good hollywood way</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">all i can say is i’m sorry</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to myself</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">for not finding this out sooner</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the cat’s clawed its way out of the bag</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">spilling missiles </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">of false selves and fragile egos</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and as far as the ethos of my love goes</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">well,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">it goes like this</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i’ll always have my hands clenched in fists</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and my sneakers on</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">fight</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">or </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">flight</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">fight </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">flight</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">doesn’t matter how right it feels</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">my heels are already halfway to hesitation</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i haven’t figured out how to love you </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">without losing me</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i wish i could love less</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">give less</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">want less</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">be less</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">but regardless</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">of this folly</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i am</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">this</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i am more</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i want more</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i deserve more</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i give more than any woman in her right mind ever would</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">mind you</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">who said anything about a right mind?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the bottom line is</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i love</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and when i love, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i love with all i’ve got</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i pull out all the stops</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and then some</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i come undone before the fat lady’s sung</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i become the disappearing woman in act two</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">until all that’s left is the “you” in this equation</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">can you blame me though?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">for holding on this tight?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">for not being able to sleep at night without touch?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">when you think about the kind of love i’ve never known,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">do you really think I’m asking for too much?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">when every tender moment i’ve ever felt </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">has slipped like grains of sand</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">through the hands of innocence</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">when every grown up who should’ve left a blueprint</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">of how this is supposed to unfurl</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">left me to bleed silent prayers</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">only to wake with swollen eyes and fear-soaked curls</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i’m asking you hear me</span></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to hold my hand and guide back to my path</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and when i’m unable to tell myself the truth</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">i’m leaving that to you</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to whisper</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">hope</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">solitude</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">remind me</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">this isn’t about </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">you</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">that the only way out</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">is the way i came in</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and if i’m ever to love</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">it </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">must</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">start</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">from</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">within </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-83017676075456857732012-01-04T21:50:00.000-08:002012-01-04T21:50:10.928-08:00glass slipper and a howling heart<br />
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">midnight has come</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so have i</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to the conclusion that some eyes are better left undotted</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">unless you've spotted the moon's metaphor </span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">long before the hand strikes</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the likes of which are far and few</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">yet somehow i always knew i'd find my place under the sun</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for every glass slipper there is the one perfect fit</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and for every battered belief there is a tiny slit across the left ventricle</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">higher pressure</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">more muscular</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">thicker blood</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">thirstier flesh</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">do you dare look into darkness seeking light?</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">or dip your tongue into the chaos of the night?</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">only the brave few</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">surrender</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">as the earth bends herself into prostration</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">approaching her perihelion</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">elliptical orbit</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fashioning seasons out of stardust</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">swaddling intimacy in layers of lust</span></div>
<div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the heart howls as the moon’s womb swells </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">bearing the distance between heaven and hell</span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-59576420762914950442012-01-03T21:42:00.000-08:002012-01-03T21:42:45.539-08:00two days<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">my lips navigate this heart </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">through torrential pain</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">seeking to relearn the motions once again</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i mouth your words</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">mostly in silence at night</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">when i’m too tired to fight</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and too afraid to lose sight of why I surrender my fears into midnight’s mourning</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">why </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">has become a dirty word</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in every peek i sneak of my scars you bleed </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">your eyes are heard</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i close mine</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">begging my mind to stop the rhyme</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">searching for the button that might break time’s hold</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to loosen the grip just a bit</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so i can fold myself back into you till Dawn deliberates </span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i run my fingers</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">up and down</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">my ache</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i fake pleasure</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i mistake moments for an eternity</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">my limbs take turns</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">scouring memories</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">staving off starvation</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">it hasn’t even been a whole two days</span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-45335913026334309932012-01-02T21:52:00.000-08:002012-01-02T21:52:38.786-08:00let it gowhen the walls come tumbling down<br />
resist the urge to the sound the alarm<br />
disarm the need to control<br />
the soul, unattended, always knows where it's next meal is coming from<br />
let it go<br />
let love do what it does when hands are tied<br />
let the mind abide by no rules<br />
only fools feast before the fast<br />
nothing lasts forever<br />
everything lasts for nowmindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-85615836280033342412012-01-02T21:44:00.000-08:002012-01-03T08:40:10.971-08:00home<div style="color: #444444; font: 15px/19px Arial; margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">when the sparks from a new found love start to settle, and shared moments of stillness are what you look forward to the most, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">it's time to undress</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">it's time to undress our souls, unveil the dark holes, reveal the last few secrets that hold us by the throat, knowing there is no going back</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">cuz if this is real enough, and we're both brave enough to love ourselves enough to feel enough, the comfort we provide one another, is more than enough</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">enough to call the bluff of the inner child, threatening to scatter the neatly piled stack of fears, tantruming terrified tears, we switch gears</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">there are moments I sit completely bare/ completely still/ in the sun/ with my pain/ by the pane/ eyes closed/ heart open/ and I listen/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">hair flowing down my back/ tears flowing down my cheeks/ down my chest/ I rest my soul in thoughts carried away on the gentle breeze/ I release/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">I breathe in the sweetness of wholeness/ of love/ of light/ of faith/ embracing my fears with the courage only a woman can know/ i exhale/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">limbs light/ heart a flight/ I set sail/ hear the distant wail of a small child/ a girl/ getting louder and clearer/ she begs to be heard/ I turn to her</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">I hold out my hand/ we tremble/ sadness weighing her eyes/ she doesn't recognize me/ she doesn't realize I'm breaking glass to set her free/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">sometimes you have to stop mid-poem/ to breathe/ to look your child in the eye/ to tell yourself it's okay to cry/ to love and be loved/</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; letter-spacing: 0px;">you see/ the poem never ends/ it's a collection of your perfect gems/ threaded on the finest threads of life/ your life/ the rhyme can wait/</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-31679835676388127842011-02-17T22:12:00.001-08:002011-02-17T22:20:41.554-08:00i need you<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I need you. three words. eight letters. one breath. That’s all I had the energy or the courage to let out. And in that moment, that one tiny utterance - an almost inaudible confession - was enough to set the wheels of human connection in motion. The anxiety, the fear, the sorrow and the guilt, that had painstakingly ambushed and ruthlessly sabotaged every single attempt to break free; to touch, were somehow nowhere to be seen or heard. Perhaps they’d found another weary soul to bully for the day? Or perhaps my three words were sincere enough and real enough to transform once debilitating pain into choice; a will so determined, leaving no room for anything or anyone to interfere. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In retrospect, it really doesn’t matter why or how the thoughts stopped racing or why my heart stopped pacing up and down the halls of ridicule and opposition, because the breath I had been holding for 33 years had finally been released and the light shining brightly from beneath the door of acceptance was about fill my dark, empty room. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">All it took was 3 words and she arrived at my front front door. But more. She arrived by my side. And I knew then and there, now that I’d made that call, that I could no longer hide. And for the first time I didn’t want to either. I wanted to run out into the snow, barefoot, hair hanging down onto my back, and twirl and twirl under the winter sun until I laughed so hard that I could barely keep myself from falling back into the corner of our basement where Barbie lived in lace-lined gowns, safe from sounds a seven year old should never hear. I wanted to close my eyes, and fall into harmony with Olivia Newton John, singing like only an eight year old with unbroken dreams can sing. I wanted to build a future with legos, risk breaking an arm - or worse - a heart, to greet the teenage boy who delivered the paper on Thursdays, down at the front door, and I wanted to chase the Dickey Dee’s hypnotic melody down the street on hot and not so hot days. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I opened the door. Somehow she knew. I knew she knew because she was alone; she’d left all judgement behind. She walked inside my walls and didn’t speak or smile or even look my way. In silence we embraced. A distorted memory of a bond once strong started to unveil itself as I began to explore a woman I’d never really understood. And in that moment, without thought, I vowed never to stray again. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We sat and shared tea and tears. She didn’t ask questions and I didn’t answer them. Only a mother can know without really knowing. Only a mother’s love is ever truly unconditional enough to allow you to feel no shame even while standing completely bare, and deep enough to reach far beneath the surface into the crevices of terrifying darkness to shine light onto dreams untold. Only a mother’s commitment is sincere enough to be able to bear the pain of truths that reopen and reinfect wounds of war. And only a mother’s brave limbs can hold you still long enough to make you feel alive once more. She can see into your soul and not want to disappear. And although she may be just as destroyed as you, she will never burden you with her own fears. At least not while you’re re-learning how to fly on your own. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am grateful for this pain. A pain mistaken for a mind gone mad. And had I only listened to the pleas of the brown-eyed girl, with soft black curls, I’d have opened the door a lot sooner. But alas, who am I to complain about the path paved with perfection for me? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-67765091343891408212010-11-30T17:58:00.000-08:002010-12-20T18:47:47.980-08:00Solitude<div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">When logic and rationale are out of reach all I have left to run to are fantasy and make-believe.</div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I want to believe. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I want to believe that its okay to deceive myself </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">so I can be myself</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">free myself from critical eyes that burn</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and dressed up lies that churn</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">bile into chaos I simply cannot digest</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I confess.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am drowning in unrelenting waves of my own demise</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Suffocating in inhibiting layers of disguise.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unable to look into the glass and not despise</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the shattered woman on the other side</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">where cries go unheard and dreams seem absurd.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Remind me once more for what reason was I lured</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">into this fabricated world of illusions.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I whisper one wish for a single moment of stillness; 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font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And almost enough blood rushing to my limbs to fill</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A void unknown to those who share my space. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Fleeting seconds tick to the beat of my corroded heart, </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Friends tired and worn to the breaking point. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The point of no return. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Don’t they see there is no return?</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have no choice but to continue to tread through taxed terrain. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Pity-poisoned smiles, </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and though lips refrain from speaking guile, there is no doubt. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We can never go back. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Am I the only one who doesn't feel exasperated by the constant skipping of the track? </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Self soothing with comforting pain. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Unaware of the strain. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Call it delusion, hallucination or self deception. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Who in their "right mind" wants to believe they’re watching the show </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">through a lens of deception?</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There’s no way to smooth out warped perception? </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There’s no exception </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to the rule that states</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">every mind, body and soul has the right to an escape. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is all I know to keep me insane enough to feel sane.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Its all the same.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Same stories</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Same dreams</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Same rhymes.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Retold to the same lifeless beat each and ever time.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’m afraid its all I’ve got right now.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And with nothing more than desperate need to feed this withering spirit, I’ll say it again and again. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Foolishly anticipating a different end.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Naively waiting for just one true friend</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to mend,</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to tend to these wounds of war with compassionate ears and loving lips.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To brush away one tear with non judging fingertips.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To defend my truth.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A truth that, no matter how extreme the strain, will never bend</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Its the one thing that remains </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">in this playground of childish games </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and pretend. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It does transcend this adolescent ache</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Keeping constant when visions vacillate </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">between certainty and doubt</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;">Don’t you see? </div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve been waiting all this time for someone else to come along and set me free. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">After a while, when you’re in the woods you can no longer see the trees. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So I wait. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For someone else to make my choice. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For someone else to breathe live into my silenced voice. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Thoughts race out of control, yielding unripened fruit. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Leaving battered souls and dangerous holes</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Spinning in circles as the shaken die rolls </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and falls</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and lands on one side.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Revealing fate.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My lifeboat begins to deflate. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And only in these moments of madness are my thoughts really mine.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">No longer yours to define.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;">I lie</div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Curled tight in a ball </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">waiting for a miracle to break my fall. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Paralyzed by fear. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Praying daybreak is near. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Screaming silently </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">frantically trying to steer myself out of this storm</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Its clear </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">that I may never find my way home. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Finally realizing I need to learn to be alone; </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">That the kind of healing I seek to find will only come from peace of mind</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">from within. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">in solitude. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So please forgive me if I come across as rude. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I don't mean to shut you out but, for the first time, you are not what this is about. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I take my leave into seclusion. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There within lies no confusion. </span></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-85926907960503658922010-11-09T18:47:00.001-08:002010-11-09T19:05:40.508-08:00Standing in the Sun<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">connecting the dots of days gone past </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scattered memories stand in line</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">distorted shadows linger behind</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">behind me is where I hide</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a tiny room</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a tiny box</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a pen and sheet</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scratching out words that lied</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lies telling tales of dangerous dreams</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I dream of the day I will awake</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from clouds of hate</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into rays of now</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am standing in the sun</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">terrified to move</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">taunted by whispers of soft curls and playful giggles</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fragile bubbles blown through a smooth pink wand</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am standing in the sun</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">somewhere between safe and soiled </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">visions coiled in dark knots</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shine! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I shout </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no sound comes out</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shine! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my soul pleads</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my unhealed wounds tear</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bleed</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shine! </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through the invisible spaces</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">find</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the loops</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the holes</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a way out</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am standing in the sun</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tense</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tired </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">afraid</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to let unfamiliar warmth penetrate my shell</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">afraid</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to tell</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of secrets holding me my by the throat</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I navigate my aging hands through magical specs</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">specs of hope that dance cautiously in the light </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in their freedom I delight</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for a single moment I wipe</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">away </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my tears</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I draw draw near </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to the young girl who appears</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the darkness of the night</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am standing in the sun</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I open my eyes </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hold out my hand</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to catch the falling flakes of snow that shatter my assumptions</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I close my hand and clench</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my fist with all my will</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">still.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">silent.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each snowflake melts away in me</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from me</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fears </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">run clear </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through my intense grip</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take hold! I demand</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take hold!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am standing in the sun</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no longer looking for a place to run</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">freeing my mind from a magnificent obsession</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">alone in me</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am beginning </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to see</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the light</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>mindfulmadnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12970178272250836196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180369399915548991.post-50859396602414116892010-11-08T10:32:00.000-08:002012-03-03T17:22:06.911-08:00The Corridor<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each week I walk the corridor</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in my disguise<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sharp flashes of terror</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">frustrated cries</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the unheard</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unheard and </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mis</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">understood</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">once bright minds </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and sound hearts</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">alive</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now deaf</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dumb</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and blind</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">damn deceptive choice! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how could a self-destructive mind know</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that to come up for air</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is to lose its voice?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lured into fabricated despair</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spinning webs of delusion </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a broken spirit in need of repair</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the dotted</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">line separating body</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and mind</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">signed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stamped </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sealed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a word or two or three</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">etched into their very beings</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">random scientific classification</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">labelled for mere identification </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">empty, numb, vessels</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">doped up on medication </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she’s “sick”, they say</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to eliminate all expectation </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yesterday</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walked the corridor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in my disguise</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">confidence carefully applied</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">painted on</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like the blackened lashes</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shadowing my eyes</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eyes following the echo</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of my heels that strike</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">striking resemblance</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">between me </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the woman on the inside</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">don’t dare look back </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">head high</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pace brisk</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a single wrong move </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">could reveal the falseness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shrouded in my imaginary suit and tie</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the show must go on </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to prove I’m alive</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">surge ahead </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fixated on the sign</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dictating to me </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a disease that does define</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who I am </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who I will never be</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unless </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I make the choice </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to set my voice free</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can’t be here</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a voice inside denies</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walk by</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she smiles </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a sympathetic smile</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">barely raising her eyes </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from the stacked pile</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the stacked pile of random diagnoses</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a haphazard list of convenient prognoses</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ghosts </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">without names </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">without goals</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">without hope</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waiting in rows </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to get refills for their dope</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have their souls undressed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have their minds possessed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">come back next week </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be reassessed</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sit next to a man </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he stares down at this feet</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">too lost in deception to meet</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my eyes </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as they search for his soul</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">its too late</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just a dark </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">empty</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hole </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he took their bait</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he swallowed their hook </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now stuck deep in his throat</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each attempt to set himself free </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lodges it deeper</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in you</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in every man </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and every woman </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that chooses not to speak </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from behind glass</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">protected </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she calls out</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ironically</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the name</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my mother gave me</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the moment I was free</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I died</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jen ... </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">ni ... </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">fer</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each syllable</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of my name</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> stings</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tears away at my flesh</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a deafening ring</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t know me this way!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t you dare call out to me!</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I refuse to give in!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will set myself free!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from your labels</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from your drugs</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from your stale sympathy</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you have no clue who I am </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and who </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walked the corridor </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">without my disguise</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the shame</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anger </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and fear </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hung next to the lies</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the closet of my past </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">my past is </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and always will be </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a real part of me</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won’t run</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won’t hide</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will allow myself to heal</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to feel</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the pain</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that stains </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an innocence</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lost in vain</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">time</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to let go</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the blame</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to remember the darkness</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but not let it win</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">consume</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or weaken my will</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">within </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">within</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">me is a flame</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">passed on</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from those I let in</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a flame of passion </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and hope</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of love </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and trust</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a renewed Trust in the One</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the One</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with Whose love I am blessed</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I walk out </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the corridor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I give thanks </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the darkness </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that has set me free</span></span></span></div>
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