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Pimpled Pockmarked beauty Barely my angel Brace yourself for the world below You should never be let out of sight This earth will swallow you whole Your life is more than surface scars And attempts at something worthwhile Their hands they long to hold yours Gently graze your skin Limping along behind you I beg for forgiveness It was not you who transgressed I am a stupid fool of a man to ever wish anything more than you I could not expect a love like mine for you to ever manifest again Not if I ever found your equal I would not believe that it was possible Refusing that could happen Madness driven panic stricken Calamity Jane all over again! All over the bathroom stall Everyone heard it down the hall I'm racing faster than my heart This chase will never end Until I collapse at your feet Tearing at fabric Soaking tears and blood Screaming promises Pledging allegiance Pleading mercy If my life is not fit currency To pay the fine for transgressions against the divine How many more times must I try before it amounts to Whatever price you have in mind? As a stray cat passes by I pause and realize This life is not mine And your hands are too clean for me So I will leave you be And go find me And when we learn to see again I'll be a man with ***** calloused hands Washing in the river Wading and wishing Drifting in and out of dreams of you and me
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Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 1:16 AM UTC
Impossible Beauty
Pimpled Pockmarked beauty Barely my angel Brace yourself for the world below You should never be let out of sight This earth will swallow you whole Your life is more than surface scars And attempts at something worthwhile Their hands they long to hold yours Gently graze your skin Limping along behind you I beg for forgiveness It was not you who transgressed I am a stupid fool of a man to ever wish anything more than you I could not expect a love like mine for you to ever manifest again Not if I ever found your equal I would not believe that it was possible Refusing that could happen Madness driven panic stricken Calamity Jane all over again! All over the bathroom stall Everyone heard it down the hall I'm racing faster than my heart This chase will never end Until I collapse at your feet Tearing at fabric Soaking tears and blood Screaming promises Pledging allegiance Pleading mercy If my life is not fit currency To pay the fine for transgressions against the divine How many more times must I try before it amounts to Whatever price you have in mind? As a stray cat passes by I pause and realize This life is not mine And your hands are too clean for me So I will leave you be And go find me And when we learn to see again I'll be a man with ***** calloused hands Washing in the river Wading and wishing Drifting in and out of dreams of you and me
m-seifert-m
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Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 1:16 AM UTC
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