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Broken Promise

LEAVES CHANGE FROM REDS TO BLACKS TRUTH AND HONESTY HER LOVER LACKS HE TOOK HER HEART,BROKE IT IN TWO WHAT ELSE WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS AT STAKE AND FOR THAT HER LIFE SHE DID TAKE NOBODY WOULD MISS HER WHEN GONE EVERYTHING SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE WRONG AS SHE WATCHED FROM WORLDS ABOVE NEEDLES AND TUBES INTO HER THEY SHOVED HER HEART GAVE ITS VERY LAST BEAT SHE HAD GIVEN INTO THE DEVILS DEFEAT THEY LOWERED THE RED AND BLACK CASKET INTO THE GROUND WHILE FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHERED AROUND FIRST IN LINE HAPPENED TO BE HIM HIS FEELINGS FOR HER NO LONGER DIM UNFORTUNATELY IT CANNOT BE UNDONE SHE WILL FOREVER AND ALWAYS BE GONE NOW SHE COMMITTED THE ULTIMATE CRIME FOR THAT HE HAS TO DO THE TIME HE KNEELS BY THE CASKET,BEGINS TO PRAY THAT SHE'LL WATCH OVER HIM DAY AFTER DAY CERTAINLY HER HE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY MISS THE PAYMENT FOR HIS BROKEN PROMISE

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Date: 9/18/2011 12:09:00 PM
The person who commits suicide thinks in this pattern but when it is about a love gone bad that is not usually what happens..The one on this side of the dirt just goes on living and never gives it another thought..Her family is the one that is hurt though..Sara
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