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Like a knife, inflicting the tragic slash Words spoken, violent and ferocious Intense, brutal, vicious vulgarity Hesitating only long enough to speak Into the spirit, breathless disrespect Anger so vehement it feels like a fire Burning away the goodness, the joy With darkness that silences all hope For the moments when two hearts Shared the wonder of sweet love Like a knife, directed toward dreams Echoing loathing, aversion to faith Reaching through gestures of mercy Beyond the tolerance – into the blame Where heartbeats could feel nothing But shame, trembling phrases, rejection Burdened by guilt, directed by condemnation Heavy hurts relinquished all their fury Erasing promises that had been assurance With doubts so desperate they compelled Even the certainties, tears welling up inside Like a knife, cutting away all the anticipation The possibility – maybe I’d only misunderstood Raking back the decaying dread, the rotting Flesh of a feeling who knew only the past Where it had been like a whisper of inspiration A feeling alive inside, where happiness could guide Even the shadows of doubt, the loneliness Embraces the blade without question Knowing that only in death, can the answers Remedy all of the questions, the issues Shameful and arising out of the hearts Who know only to turn away from the bond Tear apart the wounds with sharpened steel Lashing out in fury, rage that reasons with hearts Unfulfilled feelings falling apart as they’re Shredded by a maddened craze of deceptions Like a knife, mutilating the heart’s chances Voices raised, defacing even the reflections He and she – never again to be attached By the joy that defines love this alive, passion Turned to gray, black dreariness and pain Penetrating, weeping, silent despondency Like a knife, sharpened by smooth stones This love has grown dark and can only be Brought back to life by grinding away the Anger, the doubt, the feelings poured out On lives who know that intimacy, love… Depends on the forgiveness of every cut!
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