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Seeking Words

In the dark cold of night from which all the light has fled knowing not what may need to be to pierce the heart and make it bleed words that may pierce within cutting sharper than metal blade leaving wounds that will never heal hardening scars that will not fade life before to be as dreams losing sharpness as they recede like dust gathering on a painting then hiding all to be not seen bright red splashes on creamy white flowing pain burning hot of the colors one would not see to shine brightly in the light hard sharp edges of day to day straight lines of rules that guide decisions that need never be made thought not needed and done away hard and fast and piercing through piercing thoughts that cannot be beating rhythms that are not heard pounding deep inside of me seeking change of all that is breaking forth in light of day standing forth for all to see shouting the words that cannot be

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