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Black and Blue

What is black and blue and hurt all over?

A heart

What heals faster than anything else we know?

A heart

What is the scariest thing to ever let someone else discover?

YOUR heart

And why do you scream into the pillow at night and stare off into the distance in quiet moments?

Because that heart is broken

And how do you help heal this wound inside?

Scream into the pillow at night and stare off into the distance in quiet moments,

Trying to discern the fearful future you so desperately look forward to.

And lock away that heart

Your broken, beaten, black and blue heart

That has been slowly beating to the beat of a ramshackle life

A life that has been patched up and whose banner is flying

Proud and tattered high above the abyss

Of lonely people with black and blue broken hearts

So, that being said, what is black and blue and hurt all over?

Humanity

What heals faster than anything else we know?

Humanity

What is the scariest thing to ever really discover?

Humanity

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Dec 4, 2011
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