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Lethe

When you decide to leave me

I'll quench my thirst in the Lethe

Let the river water deceive me

And leave that life behind.

If going to heaven means I remember

I would rather burn in the ember

I will be ****** as one more member

Of my own prison of a mind.

 

When you come upon the Lethe

Will you choose not to see me?

While my heavy legs beneath me

Grow weary of this futile crusade

Will you drink oblivion and forget

Or choose to live with the regret

Claim it was a mistake we ever met

And forsake the love we made.

 

Please don’t drink the water

Please don’t wash me away

Please don’t drink oblivion

Please don’t think I’m already gone

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halcyon-dementia
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Published
Jun 10, 2010
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