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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Myself
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Blessing Death Light Love Night
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Eyes Ourselves Wonderful
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
I have tried in my way to be free.
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Freedom Myself Try
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Growth Heart Touch
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Grief One Liner
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Myself Yourself
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Myself
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Love Togetherness Way Yourself
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Lie Myself One Liner
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

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