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From Diamonds To Coal
Winter weighs heavy on your aching shoulders
And I feel it too.
You carry the stains that your eyes washed away
Like chains through the ruins of loves left to gray
In basements untouched.
Too much silence and you're left dead
To all who don't know your heart best;
It beats red in the cold,
And all that is offered
Are the blue-tainted midnights
That trail through your veins.
You're used to laments,
Apologies spent on the telescopes
You've turned toward idle windows,
While I see your stars
Fall and shine and fade
With every passing day.
I don't know.
Your heart is always on display
And mine lies under sand that falls
Upon the cross-marked pages.
It devours all my dreams of you
With every shifting second,
And all I can do is write these cryptic words
To remember where my opaque heart
Began to beat for you:
From coal to dust to diamonds and back,
I saw our shifting shapes;
As sure as crimson turned to black,
We'd never change our ways.
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