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Your shades of black and blue have been lifted

From eyes long shut to a world I didn't want to see

I lost my illusions

After years of walking around in circles

In Balzac's little world

Where I always owed you something

Something close

Something dear

Something more

Always More than I could ever give you

Until the drakness was flung from my eyes

Leaving trails of fingertips running down my skin

Like your tears running down my cheek

As I held your face next to mine

So I didn't have to see you cry

Again

But now I've turned away

Boldly, quickly

Knowing all my lost illusions will someday come back

To haunt me

Where the words "I Love You" race back and forth back and forth

In a head ready to explode from the weight of my heart

Crushing down on me as I run as fast as I can away from you

Because you hurt me

And I don't want to be hurt

I just want to feel safe

And warm

As you wrap me up in your black and blue shades

To protect me from all the disillusionment

That I'm not sure I want to face.  



March 20, 2003