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Bypass

Could you survive if I

Press panic

Or would you fall to your knees

Like a lackluster hero?

He was made of chimney soot

And deviled eggs,

Laid to waste upon my sheets.

His rotten body, lying close to mine.

So close I could not breathe

Myself back into me.

He wore a face of a

Hallmark clown

To hide all of his thoughts beneath.

But, I remember what it is to

Walk away

From a life that tried

to pull me under currents,

But I have always been able to

Hold on to shores.

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Nov 7, 2009
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