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Unfeathered Wings
An angel has fallen
Her wings tarred and unfeathered
A weight unbearable on her haunted mind
Was one I would gladly have lifted from her limbs
If only I had known, if only she had told
But I should have seen
The sadness in her eyes, always there
But her smile fooled me, blinded me to her pain
How lovely she was and her voice just as sweet
So caught up in my own sorrow
So absorbed in my living pain I missed the clues
The stories dripping from her eyes
Her song echoing in my head, a choir of angels
Falling like the sky that could not hold her up
Lifting the veil of nightfall as black as boiling tar
Thicker than blood no water could wash away
The darkness in her thoughts
Consumed her light within
And so like a phoenix she crashed to the earth
Without a soul to rise again into heaven
If only I had been there, if only I could have broken her fall
This sadness savages my heart
I am unworthy
Her wings tarred and unfeathered
A weight unbearable on her haunted mind
Was one I would gladly have lifted from her limbs
If only I had known, if only she had told
But I should have seen
The sadness in her eyes, always there
But her smile fooled me, blinded me to her pain
How lovely she was and her voice just as sweet
So caught up in my own sorrow
So absorbed in my living pain I missed the clues
The stories dripping from her eyes
Her song echoing in my head, a choir of angels
Falling like the sky that could not hold her up
Lifting the veil of nightfall as black as boiling tar
Thicker than blood no water could wash away
The darkness in her thoughts
Consumed her light within
And so like a phoenix she crashed to the earth
Without a soul to rise again into heaven
If only I had been there, if only I could have broken her fall
This sadness savages my heart
I am unworthy
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