: LIFE:

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I am not angry with you, Life
Simply baffled
By your innocent questions

Never thought that in order to live
I would need to hold on to pain
Never thought life would extract
A price for every smile
Now - whenever I smile
It feels like these lips are pursed in debt

Life, the trials you threw my way
Have taught me relationships anew
The comforts of shade I only found
Under the bright scorching sun

Today my eyes have welled up with tears
Soon they will burst forth, I'm sure
Tomorrow, who knows, these sore eyes perhaps
Will long for the sight of more -

Where have I lost that lone drop of tears
Which I had tucked away so safely?

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