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Old candles lit just as it started to rain;
I heard you beg for redemption though all in vain.
You prayed on your knees as you felt blind;
darling, all the reasons you’d get in the world, but the magic you will always have to find.

Chapters after chapters, books after books;
to rid you of the hurt, to get you off tenterhooks.
You keep flipping pages for a cure, trying to find an antidote;
for all your sins and for all the letters she ever wrote.

Caves to shield you from disgrace, mountains that keep you out of sight;
screaming telling the world what you did was okay, what you did was right.
So you circle the past, and go back to an age-old disease;
the tragedy is within, my love, all the oceans of the world but you still won’t find any peace.

Go ahead and paint back the walls with my name;
break my photo from that gold frame.
Sweetheart, but I'll tell you something off the shelf;
the world is too small a place for a coward who’s always running away from himself. 



Until next time,
Love, always
S

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