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We cannot prevent people from falling in life Blinded by our own salted skin and crunching bones And only notice the wounds on someone's face when they knock on our door and ask if they can borrow a plaster I can only watch you with deep s y m p a t h y when your scarred heart gasps for breath if only I can heal your p a i n if only I could catch you whenever you fall but I'm just another helpless creature expecting myself to be m o r e and guilt appears faster than rain on car windows and my heart goes up in the flames of grief the guilt grows damp before my eyes plasters do not heal w o u n d s want to bury them deep down with me your misfortunes are mine My crooked heart knitted to y o u r s And I just want to say that I'm really sorry for letting you f a l l I should've hold your hand more tightly I couldn't swim and you jumped in                                                                                and I couldn't s a v e you we always know everything afterwards so we cannot prevent our people from falling We can run as fast as we can but time is faster than realization                                                                   We are either  d e a d  or  l a t e.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
Realization
We cannot prevent people from falling in life Blinded by our own salted skin and crunching bones And only notice the wounds on someone's face when they knock on our door and ask if they can borrow a plaster I can only watch you with deep s y m p a t h y when your scarred heart gasps for breath if only I can heal your p a i n if only I could catch you whenever you fall but I'm just another helpless creature expecting myself to be m o r e and guilt appears faster than rain on car windows and my heart goes up in the flames of grief the guilt grows damp before my eyes plasters do not heal w o u n d s want to bury them deep down with me your misfortunes are mine My crooked heart knitted to y o u r s And I just want to say that I'm really sorry for letting you f a l l I should've hold your hand more tightly I couldn't swim and you jumped in                                                                                and I couldn't s a v e you we always know everything afterwards so we cannot prevent our people from falling We can run as fast as we can but time is faster than realization                                                                   We are either  d e a d  or  l a t e.
Jun 17 2014 © WAJ
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
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