Array ( [sid] => 147173 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Beauty Within [time] => 2009-01-02 02:22:44 [hometext] => How I was saved from myself by a man with a mirror... [bodytext] => Went for a walk off a cliff one day,
So convinced death was the only way.
Somehow, I knew I just couldn’t die,
I had to stay, but didn’t know why.

I tried and I tried, all canceled out
I offered echoes to a canyon of doubt.
Took scissors to flesh to prove I could,
Regressed, but you knew I would.

Sobs from the child, returned broken
It’s been years since she’s spoken.
Feeling too much, scars ripped anew
Bleeding but alive when I found you.

You let me cry, said it was okay
Soon enough you wiped them away.
I knew the answers, had all along
Threw them down, mistaken for wrong.

Ready to jump to end this living,
You said I had something worth giving.
Something born with, I had still
Inalienable, even by reason or will.

Reached inside myself, thought devoid
Pulled out a heart that wasn’t destroyed.
The mistakes and pain my life had been
Had not tarnished the beauty within. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 266 [topic] => 48 [informant] => Chamaron [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry ) Your Poetry Dot Com - Beauty Within


Beauty Within
Date: Friday, 2nd January 2009 @ 02:22:44 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: Chamaron
Went for a walk off a cliff one day,
So convinced death was the only way.
Somehow, I knew I just couldn’t die,
I had to stay, but didn’t know why.

I tried and I tried, all canceled out
I offered echoes to a canyon of doubt.
Took scissors to flesh to prove I could,
Regressed, but you knew I would.

Sobs from the child, returned broken
It’s been years since she’s spoken.
Feeling too much, scars ripped anew
Bleeding but alive when I found you.

You let me cry, said it was okay
Soon enough you wiped them away.
I knew the answers, had all along
Threw them down, mistaken for wrong.

Ready to jump to end this living,
You said I had something worth giving.
Something born with, I had still
Inalienable, even by reason or will.

Reached inside myself, thought devoid
Pulled out a heart that wasn’t destroyed.
The mistakes and pain my life had been
Had not tarnished the beauty within.

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