A Heart Broken by the Sea

27 Jul 2008

·weaver

A solemn young girl with diamond tears Stands alone in the swirling mist Her hair the color of a raven's wing A shade of red upon her lips Her skin as pale as moonlight Her eyes as dark as sin Her footfalls stalking through the night Are as silent as the wind Her heart conceals great tragedy That has left her scarred inside She will always haunt this lonely sea Where her true love had died Her voice calls out in deep despair As she weeps tears so soft and sweet While the wave upon that dreary shore Come crashing at her feet

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I was pieced together with five parts compassion, three parts empathy, three parts hard work, and two parts self-preservation; but then they decided that thirteen parts was bad luck and cut my regard for preservation down to one. It is...

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