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Pie in the Sky

I looked into unseeing eye; it didn't blink Tears pooled blurring my vision.... Perhaps I could pass through that shuttered gaze, probe deeper within; pass by blood and tissue and reach the fleshy beating heart? I closed my eyes and appealed with words, clawed blindly at emotional walls; pleaded with silent screams at pie in the sky dreams....but Treachery had been there first; plucking away... stealing the heart with its persuasive sway
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sharleen-boaden
South African
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Feb 3, 2012
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