break me gently

14 august 1998 *** 11:55pm

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break me gently

hard your tongue

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a lying tongue

and i’m undone

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break me gently

like a bone

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like a bone

that’s shattered

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with your tongue

a victory won

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like a bone

that mattered

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a victory won

an overthrow

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all that mattered

fragments scattered

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break me gently 

kill me quick

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kill me quick

before it festers

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break me gently

sharpened whip

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sharp as a whip

a roomful of jesters

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kill me quick

don’t want to feel it

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sharp as a whip

no chance to heal it

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don’t want to feel it

all alone (broken bone)

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no chance to heal it

broken bone (all alone)

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break her gently

with a poem

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with a poem

she’ll never own

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break her gently

without a sound

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without a sound

a future found

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with a poem

free to be (eternally)

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without a sound

eternally (free to be)

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free to be (eternally me)

writing poems

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your lying tongue

overthrown

(a vict’ry won)

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my lion’s tongue

a vict’ry won

(your overthrow)

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eternally (free to be)

all alone

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in fragments scattered

like a bone

(all that mattered)

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***** (inspired by proverbs 25:15 and the verse about cutting off

the “limb” that makes you sin–i’m too tired to look it up!)

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