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The thing that kills me most Shattering me from within Is not the absence of your shield But this abrupt awareness Of the awful emptiness That has now settled into the place Which hope has just vacated. I ride out into the colloseum Battle-clad in armour Club swinging, sword at the ready A quiver full of arrows Just to defend you. But I will fall at the very first shot This armour I call my skin Will be the death of me. Because the truth is You were my armour You were my shield And then I realised you never were.
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM UTC
Gladiators Made Of Glass
The thing that kills me most Shattering me from within Is not the absence of your shield But this abrupt awareness Of the awful emptiness That has now settled into the place Which hope has just vacated. I ride out into the colloseum Battle-clad in armour Club swinging, sword at the ready A quiver full of arrows Just to defend you. But I will fall at the very first shot This armour I call my skin Will be the death of me. Because the truth is You were my armour You were my shield And then I realised you never were.
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM UTC
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