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Riven
I believed in you.

I saw in your eyes, my faithful friend
I saw in your lies, my path to an end

And I believed in you.

There are cracks upon the broken ground,
And now, upon my path I’ve found,
That there is no forgiveness,
No God, nor glory.
Only the bladed...

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Categories: riven, lost loveme,
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Riven
Fools believe in fantasy. 
Skeptics see through all.
Devout and doubting, both in me,
Divided by a schizoid wall....

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Categories: riven, angst
Form: Verse
Riven
I’m trying to be positive
But deep inside my gut
A chorus filled with “not again!”
Is there to undercut.

I check the undecideds
As the numbers fluctuate
And know there’s nothing we can do
Except to sit and wait.

The country’s riven clean in half,
The red states and the blue.
We aren’t the...

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Categories: riven, america, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

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Riven
A small tornado passed on through
And split some neighbors’ trees in two.
The toppled pieces hit the ground
So branches scattered all around.

No harm was done to man or house
Thus it makes zero sense to grouse,
Though clean-up will be far from cheap
And losing trees could make one...

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Categories: riven, tree,
Form: Rhyme

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