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Guard your heart

By Channa

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My sweet young boyyou've lost your sense of joyalthough you're just nineteenyour heart she didn't esteemyou gave it all awayto her, but she didn't stayshe lighten up your worldand like honey were her wordsNow you two have grown apartShe broke your tender heartguard your heart cherub of minetis your most cherished treasuresome will use it for their pleasurefor a season, for a timeI hear you silently cryyou're alone in the darklook to Him up to the skyHe will return that spark.My heart breaks in twoFor I feel this agonybut, no one can ever seeyou cringing in the insidewith nowhere to truly hideGuard your heart I should've told youfor in this earthly road I knewone day someone would crush you.I could heal the fleshy wounds'kiss' them all, make them betterand you wouldn't utter a sound.but can I tell you, as your mother?I hold no cure, no specific magicin my motherly bag of tricksthere's not a thing to heal a broken heartand that sweetheart, is tearing me apart!. Written October 22nd, 2001 © on Oct 22 2001 03:30 PM PST   18 • 0 • 1

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"My sweet young boyyou've lost your sense of joyalthough you're just nineteenyour heart she didn't esteemyou gave it all awayto her, but she didn't stayshe lighten up your worldand like honey were her wordsNow you two have grown apartShe broke your tender heartguard your heart cherub of minetis your most cherished treasuresome will use it for their pleasurefor a season, for a timeI hear you silently cryyou're alone in the darklook to Him up to the skyHe will return that spark.My heart breaks in twoFor I feel this agonybut, no one can ever seeyou cringing in the insidewith nowhere to truly hideGuard your heart I should've told youfor in this earthly road I knewone day someone would crush you.I could heal the fleshy wounds'kiss' them all, make them betterand you wouldn't utter a sound.but can I tell you, as your mother?I hold no cure, no specific magicin my motherly bag of tricksthere's not a thing to heal a broken heartand that sweetheart, is tearing me apart!...."

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