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Innocence Drifts Away in the Breeze

I know words could never make-up for all the fucked up things I�ve done,
I can�t exactly claim to have ever been entirely honest.
We�ve all got our secrets,
And even to this very day�
I�m still lying to myself.
I just wish you would see what I�m feeling inside.
That young girl you once knew of,
Wishing upon each shooting star,
Who naively saw a future through optimistic eyes�
Is long gone now.
She ran away as she lost all hope in herself.
Dreams once filled by the illusion of beauty,
Now only bare�these tragic�reminders,
The constant faceless metaphor,
Forever haunting her nightmares.
Once upon a time,
Make believe made sense.
So easily led astray in fairytales we�d eagerly die to find true,
Life seemed so simple then�
But we lost ourselves with the innocent escapes,
And eventually,
Reality grew into guilt.
This world had inscribed in me its freezing touch,
And left it here to linger throughout my burning blood.
It�s leaving me all but breathless,
But I�ve never felt so alone before now.
Our lives are only worth that purity we keep in piece,
Untainted and untouched.
Though I fear these damaging thoughts I�m thinking,
May have drowned out every last indication of good in me.
All along I�ve just been pretending to be something beyond myself,
More then I could ever possibly convince you to believe.
I guess I never actually expected you to last,
But you�ve kept this charade going for so long�
And now there�s no easy way out,
I�m running of options.

What really happened to all those missing happy endings?
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