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[aid] => mick
[title] => Flesh.
[time] => 2009-11-26 18:02:27
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[bodytext] => I was on my knees again, for you, last night Sending whispered prayers up to the heavens, wrapped in guilt God must have ripped off the packaging with disdain Spat down to the earth's soft soil in disgust Don't you see, I love you now the way I loved you then I have not been forged into some strong armed statue I am flesh and you are flesh Your name has been sent off, I'm telling you I have begged on your behalf It is not me, no, it couldn't have ever been me You need a savior and I am flesh I am flesh....wrapped in guilt Spitting on the earth's soft soil in disgusted disdain As I have grown to withered woman, pale and stark You have grown to something that frightens me Sends me shuddering into the cold confines of solitude I can't look at you now, can't bear to stomach the sight But in the quiet, once the prayers have ceased, I casually pine over this thought Perhaps you haven't grown into something different, perhaps it was me the whole time Blind, waiting for vision that would ache in the reality of your beast Perhaps it was me Kneeled for you when you should have been kneeled for you I am flesh, only flesh, sobbing through the wounds of this guilt And the bitterness, the beguiled soul rotting in the prayer position For you, again.... [comments] => 0 [counter] => 129 [topic] => 75 [informant] => weepingprophet [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => anguished )
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