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zaaclindsay
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since 2009-08-12
Posts 111
Ottawa Ontario

0 posted 2009-08-18 12:15 PM



She smiles and tells me she’s
no good for me
It’s probably just as well
I look so deep into her eyes,
but she’s already gone
No wonder why her heart
feels cold as hell

She never gives a reason
for the way she is
But when I hold her close
she hangs on so tight
She swears she won’t
need anyone
to keep her safe and warm
But she still calls my name
in the middle of the night

She’s my melancholy butterfly
from an indigo cocoon
Her lonely eyes
have never cried
the tears of innocence
gone too soon

O, melancholy butterfly
can’t seem to find the wind
Her sad disguise
and silent cries
frozen by winters moon

She’ll never say she
ever needed me
The best that I can hope for
is the pyre
that burns ice blue
and cuts my heart in two
before she’ll say the words…
the words she knows
will set my soul on fire

The changing seasons always
bring the warm spring air
and I still sit beneath
these stars
The chrysalis that held her soul
is feeling like my heart
But oh, those wings of gossamer
how they shimmer in the light

She’s my melancholy butterfly
from an indigo cocoon
Her lonely eyes
have never cried
the tears of innocence
gone too soon

O, melancholy butterfly
silken wings in velvet flight
The summer moon
will wait for you
to bathe you in its light
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brneyedgrly
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since 2009-06-08
Posts 1125
nowhere and everywhere
1 posted 2009-08-18 12:20 PM



wow!  this is breathtaking

like song lyrics



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flesh, blood, bone, love...twisted
~ L. Hall

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