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Created on: November 23, 2008 Last Updated: February 13, 2009
It's not for me
Bird bleeding somewhere with my heart
Am I who's hoping for a final embrace?
As hope day after day I find not
Caress for me is away for another to have
Glimmer of mine is not enough for it to come
To find me living in it's feelings
Sand circle my heart in the place where
Fire burns the hardest steel
Drowning in the shallow sea
My wings won't work
My end is near
In two I never found success
I am a seed born
In a dry land that's wet ... .
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