My Beastly Heart

There exists in my chest

A space unlike the rest

Where a horrifying thing is still beating.

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It shivers with delight.

When it’s out of the light

And on me this thing’s con-tinu-ally eating.

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I fear the desires of this thing

Are the feathers to my wings

As I fly to uncertain destinations.

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And what has me vexed

Is my fear for the next

Unlucky soul it’ll crave for annexation.

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I pine for the girl

That dropped off the world

To oblivion; else something truly awful.

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I watched her fall

To the edge did I crawl

And this thing’s what kept me back and kept me mournful.

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And it whispers things

Such loathsome music it sings

Of far off places where I’ll go and things I’ll see.

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So why, oh why

If this can help me fly

Do I find myself in cold captivity?

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It’s constant noon

In this world of Then, Now and Soon

And I’ve learnt so much about this heart I call my own.

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If only Then

If only Then

If only Then I’d truly known.