Mask Came Off, Claws Came Off

Fire in your eyes,

I tried to put it out with

the tears in my own.

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You fanned the flames with

the winds of your disdain and

refused to be quenched.

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I wept an ocean,

carved caverns in the deep earth

of my yearning heart,

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So I could hide in

darkness, as you sent out your

searching, sweeping flames.

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