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[aid] => Mick
[title] => Redemption
[time] => 2003-08-02 10:25:00
[hometext] => I moved to escape my hometown and some of the people there, and when I moved back I had a whole other perspective.
[bodytext] => Thrust by truth, blinded by greed Cold waters won't wash the blood that I bleed Taken by victims, enabler of crimes Against innocents, against my own mind Carried by rivers forged out of tears The swords of the mighty who turn deaf ears I gave of my soul, sanctity and grace To become one with the industrial rat race Guaranteed salvation, I turned from my thoughts Lead myself with colors, that were grayed by their costs Unknown to the very ones who spoke of my needs They remained blinded, I remained grieved And so lost a soul on the path to enlightenment I carried the cross of personal indictment Once felled by greater powers than me I wondered why my life was buried in screams The home I had run from, the home of my heart Called from the highlands of passion and art And so with a soul and mind free from exemption I cast the runes, and find my Redemption. © 2003 Chrystine Stylle [comments] => 2 [counter] => 163 [topic] => 21 [informant] => stylle [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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