By The Love Dog
Submitted by Harmonica
Date: 2005 Jul 23
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The Beauty of Pain



Maybe there just is a silent beauty to you
Your emotions charged with rage colors as screams emerge
From the mouths of those you visit everyday

Who are you anyway and why come to us
Stealthy in the night as a deamon of memories lost
Boldly in the day as the courier to the sick of heart and limb

And what happens when a tree falls
Does not the crash of leaves against the ground speak of you

Mostly you come in quiet ways surrounded by darkness
But when your light is revealed you exhibit a true force
Purging dead cells that often steal life away

Your manner and your face no longer frightens us
The measure of you is really modest and not vane
You are just a chosen word for we could think of no other

We branded you and kept you buried deep between thoughts and desires
And we were wrong because we failed to see your beauty
As you have failed to understand us