I pledged my love
I pledged my youth
It would be many years
Before me stand truth
The face that smiled with kindness
The loyalty I bore
My word given before god
Maintained the blindness
This perpetrator of violence
The need for submission
Ground grateful and willingly
Underneath hard heel
This life of falseness
Living in crimson fear
Distorted
Drops of blood so real
Then from the blows of darkness
Rose a stranger
I had yet to know
Pen in hand
Stack of paper
The ink of sadness
In rivulets flowed
Writing of the hearts pain
Of death
Come all too soon
Happiness love loss despair
The price of being human
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 8:30 AM UTC
I pledged my love
I pledged my youth
It would be many years
Before me stand truth
The face that smiled with kindness
The loyalty I bore
My word given before god
Maintained the blindness
This perpetrator of violence
The need for submission
Ground grateful and willingly
Underneath hard heel
This life of falseness
Living in crimson fear
Distorted
Drops of blood so real
Then from the blows of darkness
Rose a stranger
I had yet to know
Pen in hand
Stack of paper
The ink of sadness
In rivulets flowed
Writing of the hearts pain
Of death
Come all too soon
Happiness love loss despair
The price of being human
This poem is copyrighted and stored in author base. All material subject to Copyright Infringement laws
Section 512(c)(3) of the U.S. Copyright
Act, 17 U.S.C. S512(c)(3), Tammy M. Darby
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