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[bodytext] => He beats her heart with cruel words until her heart stops And then revives her with his EMT skills She survives for the good moments Even though they are intermittent Taking the bad moments in strife But the beatings take a toll He may be able to get her heart pumping again But each time he makes it stop He puts another slash in her heart that he does not bother to mend Through which goodness is swallowed and evil conquers Assembling her heart to ooze venom Because of her virtue the venom will never overcome The goodness that flows throughout the rest of her existence But it does drain her of her strength Rob her of her youth She can feel it But she is powerless to do anything about it Or so she thinks Maybe if she let go Maybe if she refused to play his games Maybe if she didn’t offer him the best of her He would leave And give those punctures time to heal Maybe then her goodness wouldn’t have to be in war with evil Maybe then all the evil would surrender [comments] => 3 [counter] => 179 [topic] => 65 [informant] => EsotericWsdm4 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => toughstuff )
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