By Ember Shadow

Written 21 October 2003

I look out at you

From beyond armored walls

Full of corridors and mazes

On long winding halls

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The walls are for protection

Protection I feel I need

I keep everyone at arm’s distance

For I won’t have my heart bleed

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I’d been hurt severely

So I put the walls up

To prevent the pain

I hid like a scared pup

--

Surrounded by people

But forever alone

Friendships yet to discover

A loss I’d bemoan

--

The he came

Straightforward and blunt

He told me quite frankly

He could see through my stunt

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That I was a coward

To hide behind walls

Hiding from people

When friendship calls

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The shock was so great

I retreated at that

To ponder the walls

In the corridors I sat

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My walls had been crippled

There’d been no doubt in my mind

The walls would come down

It would only take time

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But do I have time?

Or is it too late

To have close friends

Untormented by fate?

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Removing those walls

Will be quite a task

Thank you my friend

You saw through my mask