By Hedvig
Date: 2001 Dec 26
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Blood Filled Moat

You've set up a wall to surround you
To protect you from harm and from pain
A bulwark of defensive devices
to avoid all the hurt that can maim

Numbing your feelings and sorrows
Anesthetically controlling your heart
Making sure that you ward off attackers
that emotions of agony won't start

Hidden away in your castle
your moat's filled with blood from your past
your drawbridge is closed, by reasons supposed
thinking your defenses will last

Remember, all castles have dungeons
to torture and kill those who dare
to enter your life,  with a rose, not a knife
who desire to romantically share

Your rampart is so aptly guarded
with turrets all filled with disguise
you shoot with fool blanks, as you ride in your tanks
and you hide from yourself deep inside

Will you ever give up this partition  
that has blocked you from all that you fear
avoiding the pain, you now have remained
unable to even shed a tear

These fortifcations that bind you
not allowing your feelings to start
are the very same bars of a prisoner
who has blocked true love from his heart

...


Hiding from Love - and pain....