The garden of good and evil is darkened

Black shadows and white lights blurred to grey

Dusky words in twilight (What does "forever" mean?)

With sparkling diamond rain drops and so little to say.

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Beneath the soft, shadowed exterior

My loving heart lies bleeding

Shamefully pure pollution

Secret darkness feeding

Silent and torturous

Swear to me, my only one

That you’ll never break my trust

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(In the ghost-dim shallow seeming

Of love’s somehow-quiet screaming

Protestations of impossibility

Still yet to confront the wonder of reality –

Could I cower in your safe and shielding arms,

Turn from my doubting, self-inflicted harm

And never fear my helplessness, this exposure

Spend unconditional forever in your power?)

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Underneath the midnight surface

My aching heart lies pounding

Painfully perfect imperfection

Deep pulsation sounding

Desperate and deathly slow

You’ve assured to me forever, love…

Don’t ever let me go.

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Frozen, stilled, held fierce in time's grip

Our future's flag to slowly be unfurled

Will our perfect Eden survive my sins

And withstand this changing world?