What the night cloaks,
The sun shall never see.
I tried to relay this,
But you refused to see.
You touched me,
Thinking you could heal,
A life that's been too broken,
To ever want to feel.
I hoped to love the sunrise,
In its shade of gentle blue.
I cried inside its beauty,
But I tried because of you.
I walked among the waves,
Of twilight's quiet shore.
You watched to see me smile,
But I only felt it more -
The eyes inside my dreams,
And the terrors that I see.
The world that I want out of,
If you'd just let go of me.
I am kept immobile,
By ties that forever bind.
I'm dying for escape,
But there's turmoil in my mind.
You are a shackle,
As surely as the chains,
That kept me bound and silent,
And tortured with their pain.
I am begging mercy,
Though I hold out little hope.
Peace is all I want,
But you have to let me go . . .

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