An Ode

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From briar to jungle dreams banished
Lost to the fevered nightmares of time

And though I may never truly understand
How bliss and survival went hand in hand

I know now that though sacrifices made
They will never wash your love away

And after the fall, though times seemed sweet
They can never hide the sorrows of meek

This anger borne not from soul, but pain
Has ruled to many night and day

I'm sorry for all the things I did wrong
The times I made you cry those horrid songs

With honey of ignorance no longer yours
Let my inked words be years' cure.

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