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Date Posted: 19:14:57 02/14/00 Mon
Author: Paul B. Geisert
Subject: If There is a Truth in this Pain

And so she thinks that she deserves to bleed,
After all what is love if not some dark consuming need
And she must be evil for she finds a way to destroy everything within her touch
Until she can't be happy within the sunshine without crawling back to the darkness she has come to trust
And I call her beautiful, a truth I know she throws silently back at me
Says I've never seen her, I'm just in love with a picturesque fantasy
She asks, how many angels do you think you'll find swimming at the bottom of a bottle of sleeping pills
You're always trying to give me wings, but there are so many demons I've yet to spill
Do you think your heaven could ever be enough to lift me from my hell
Sweet boy you're so naive, you've never even noticed the thousand locks upon my cell
With that I took a sharp knife and drew it softly across my skin
As the first bright droplets fell, her eyes I gazed silently within
Do you think that I bleed any less truthfully than you do
Just because you haven't heard me scream, don't think that I can't love you
And you can wish upon yourself forty more years of rain
Thinking there is some truth you can only find in these moments of pain
But I refuse to believe you are getting any closer to an answer by wrapping yourself in this shame
You can use yourself as an excuse all you want, but you can't always take the blame
The truth is we all are beautiful when we give ourselves the opportunity to be
And I can't stop you from bleeding, only you can set you free
But I think you know you deserve so much more than the darkness that's become your favorite place to hide
And every answer you've ever sought is there once you learn to trust the heart you hold inside
I paused and let her eyes sink to the small red puddle on the floor
If there is a truth in this pain, I said, it just may be that we don't belong there anymore

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Re: If There is a Truth in this Pain -- Peter E, 14:30:36 02/17/00 Thu
Re: If There is a Truth in this Pain -- Leisa*), 10:34:10 02/23/00 Wed