Tainted Heart

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Imprints on the heart,

Some echo gentle love and soothing touch,

Some are eyes that are wells of honesty

Sometimes that love may get lost in the way

And the heart might search for,

Not checking within its deepest pockets


Imprints on the heart,

Harsh voices and jagged lines,

Deceiving smiles and barely concealed lies,

Hands that reach deep within,

Squeezing the heart dry,

And coming back for the tiny drops


Imprints on the heart,

Truth reached every corner,

But the truth was detrimental to its survival,

It had to be intact

It had to live to see that sunset,

That sunset from the shoreline

On a faraway beach


The sunset that sings in tune

with the heart's roaring beats,

That song that the prisoner was always deaf to hitherto,

That beautiful anthem called freedom.

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