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Afraid of the Light

By shadows of saturn

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

You sit, starenever taking a standdrop coin into well, its gonewishing does not get you anything anymoreYour a liera sinner ; no saviora maddened playerin a two faced gameBut you hide from the lightBecause it can see right through the mask into the real youyou can no longer hide in the darkbecause the light is always thereand the starlight is burning your soulinto silver colored dustYou Cry for no onebut your selftears no longer bittersweetyou seek pittytry to wash away the maskthat you glued onYour now angelno revenger-avengeronly a folish stranger to yourselfBut your a hiding in the darkrunning from the lightbut your legs are getting weak-you relise that you can do itand stand in the lightface the lightstep out of the dark night Written September 6th, 2001 © on Sep 06 2001 01:37 PM PST   0 • 1

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"You sit, starenever taking a standdrop coin into well, its gonewishing does not get you anything anymoreYour a liera sinner ; no saviora maddened playerin a two faced gameBut you hide from the lightBecause it can see right through the mask into the real youyou can no longer hide in the darkbecause the light is always thereand the starlight is burning your soulinto silver colored dustYou Cry for no onebut your selftears no longer bittersweetyou seek pittytry to wash away the maskthat you glued onYour now angelno revenger-avengeronly a folish stranger to yourselfBut your a hiding in the darkrunning from the lightbut your legs are getting weak-you relise that you can do itand stand in the lightface the lightstep out of the dark night..."

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