In need of Repair...

Tossed and torn on the wayside there
Broken and bleeding heart barely beating
Waiting while wishing someone would care
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The air grows heavy and fills with despair
Time ticks apace to show that it's fleeting
While waiting wishing someone would care
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Tossed and torn on the wayside there
A meant-to-be becomes a missed meeting
If you had come, would I have been ware?
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While waiting wishing someone would care
Plainly, passively, passionately, entreating,
Tossed and torn on the wayside there
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Will this again be too much to bear?
To give up now would be cheating
Tossed and torn on the wayside there
While waiting wishing someone would care
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Follows

She walks in his footsteps in silence
No shadow does she cast
Her eyes hidden, gazing low
Her mind only on the next step
World weary and full of woe
Careful not to stray
Living only to serve him
Not broken but bent and bleeding
Random hurts from others they pass
Intended not to injure
They tear her down
Harming her beloved grieves her
Brings her so low
She falters as she walks
But still she follows

Don't Forget

There is no pleasure for the penitent

No savior for the just

A battered bag of bones

Lies beaten, bleeding and bruised

In shouting at the wicked

We oftimes forget the compassionate

Cooler heads cannot prevail

When ardent passion rules

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B. A. E.

Broken, bleeding, and bruised

I raise a battered hand

To have it brushed aside

Would you have me beg?

Is this betrayal?

Bittersweet and blue

My feelings were not to be borrowed

But you could not be bothered

Barging forward

Without a backward glance

We should break it off

Before Anyone Else

Burns

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