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The First I Ever Commanded

ONE EMPTY HEART ONE SWOLLEN FACE TWO LOVERS DIED NEVER AGAIN TO EMBRACE WE PRAY THEY FIND SOMEONE TO HOLD AS THEY DID ONE ANOTHER LIKE THE BEST STORY EVER TOLD BUT ONE WAS UNSPOKEN THE OTHER UNCONTROLLED LASHES OF HER TONGUE HE LOST HIS WANT TO SWEEP HER AWAY. SHE WOULD CUT HER TONGUE OUT TO MAKE HIM STAY. HE NEVER KNEW SHE WAS ONLY HIS SHE NEVER BELIEVED HE TRULY WANTED HER THEY COULD NOT GET PAST JEALOUSLY LIFE WOULD SERVE INSTEAD THE GAVE UP ON ONE ANOTHER HE REFUSED TO PUT HER FIRST SHE FAILED TO SILENCE HER TONGUE HER CURSE IT WAS THAT TOOK THEIR LIFE AWAY HAPPINESS NOW SEEMED SO FAR AWAY APART THEY COULD NOT EXIST MORE THAN A FEW DAYS SO HE GREW TIRED AND ANGRY WHICH MADE HIM GIVE UP AND SHE DIED INSIDE WITHOUT HIS LOVE

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