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The Sleeper

If what is real is what I see

I am far from madness

With shutters closed

Eyes sewn shut

Wednesday I may own the world

Thursday, darling, lose it all

In winteriest moods it all turns sour

A negative, a hollow shell

On brighter day’s I’ll hear the choir

Someone whispers out a spell

 

Should I stay sleeping all life long

Another world has been created

Behind the stutter of my eyes

Are nightmares

Yet fear not, there will be no harm

They say

Yet I’ve been known to play with hearts

Dangle puppets on a string

Pull the noose a little tighter

Wounded one, please step right in

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Written by
clemence-huet
French
Published
Feb 12, 2012
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