Forty five

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Materialistic objects

never mattered to me

but this heart

oh this precious heart

I want to hide it

from the eye of cruelty

keep it safe within my skin

stroke it lovingly

because time has warned me

that

if its out in the open

they'll toss it in the air

but forget to catch it

and when the world will hear

a deadly

yet deafening sound

it'll yearn

for the chest it's supposed to be in

but the chest would lay shattered

with it

in the same old ground

-E

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