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Knife With A Jagged Edge
written by YouSmileAs_I_Die
02:14 AM 4/9/05
I've tried so hard to weave

These gossamer threads of my life

Into an elegant and colorful cloth

It was coming along fine until the day you showed up

Cruely you smiled and brandished a knife with a jagged edge

And with that same smile, you ripped apart the very fabric of my life

If I thought it was tattered and worn at first, that is no comparison to what it looks like now

Large holes open like hungry wolves' mouths waiting to devour me

Strings flutter freely in the breeze, mocking me with their care-free manner

I clutched that mangled cloth to my chest like a child holding his blanket,

Scared of the mostrosities that would come to me if I ever

Dared to relinquish it

And thus, I've been going about, trying to patch it up as best as I could

With the scraps I've got left from the others before you

But things still don't look right

The patches don't cover the holes entirely

The once bright colors have faded into weary and tired tones

But still I cling to it for dear life

For what reasons, I do not know

For it will never look like it did before you came along


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Author's footnotes and comments on this Poem:
i hate to sound all depressed/cynical, but love really sucks.

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