Perils

What is wrong will never be right
for we are not ones who can change the past
yet we try so hard to run from these perils
only to realize their memories last
although sometimes we try
and though sometimes it seems we do
we will never escape the horrors
that we often live through
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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