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[title] => Used To Be
[time] => 2003-12-29 21:28:47
[hometext] => This is about a fresh start and finding comfort in who you are. Allowing yourself to break free and be genuine.
[bodytext] => Used To Be A Paul This used to be my home The place my sanity remained Where I would go when all else failed Where I was always unafraid This used t be my sanity Where no one and nothing could get me Here and nowhere else was I safe Here… I was understood But the years have a way of changing you And time can do it too The comfortable now feels unfamiliar And the warmth is lost through aged windows All too soon I felt like a stranger Alone in someone else’s room Looking in on a life that no longer I was a part of it Today I was reborn Today my life is changed As the last wall falls As my hammer cracks the last window Free my heart from all the strings That have tangled my life’s direction One by one I cut them loose I am now bound by nothing As if right on cue the rain drips down Washing away decades of loss, guilt and pain I drop the hammer with a clang to the ground My heart soaring And my new home found [comments] => 1 [counter] => 150 [topic] => 32 [informant] => burgandy [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => SadPoetry )
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