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Wrought iron gates greet the eyes Looming like deception and lies Such a petty endeavor to seek valor With such a ghastly pallor This place was supposed to heal But trapped is all I really feel The walls look down upon me Promising I'll never again be free Such menacing messages on tapestries Tormenting my soul and bringing me to my knees Little imperfections here and there But little did anyone truly care I could evade the whispers in the walls And the rattling in my head that makes me pause Wake me, shake me, even break me With lurid eyes and hurried lies you'd even flee The irony I suppose is I could walk away These facetious walls can't make me stay Sunlight splashes across the entrance hall Where I watched you brawl, bawl, and crawl Your craven need for this squalor Divines in my mind the heart of a scholar You need for nothing but want for everything It surely stings when the walls don't sing But I'm made a victim by the weakness in your eyes Assuredly promising my own demise Love made a fool of my heart Ruthlessly ripping the strings apart I'm surely down to the last thread In time you'll be face down and dead And I'll finally leave this place a broken man With nary a future to plan And I'll look back one last time Ignoring the stench and grime Wrought iron gates greet the eyes Looming like deception and lies
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