By Liz
Date: 2002 Jun 23
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Todd

Somewhere behind your
wall of wickedness
there is a soul;
an emotional depot
where you have been stranded
since childhood,
left with the knowledge
that no one was coming
to rescue you,
so you got tired of watching, waiting
and you grew immune to hope,
blind to possibility,
closed to me.
I try, Todd,
but you can't punish me
because they didn't love you enough
and your stranglehold won't keep me
in the prison of your heart.
Peek around the wall,
what you see won't scare you so much.
I'm one small, vulnerable being
a heart that beats in time with yours
the only difference between us
is that I still believe in love.