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All She Needed


  • Raving mad was the sun
  • Unfair deals signed with nature
  • Paying for being a woman
  • Toiled in it's venomous fangs 
  • Basked in it's scotching flames
  • Bathing in dust, whipped by thorny stems
  • Bleeding hopeless child of the morning
  • She's lived a life of mourning 
  • And on a misty day
  • She rose without a care
  • Picked a pot of clay and disappeared in the curves
  • And on a misty day, she became a woman of the shadows
  • The sun couldn't burn her
  • Soothing was the feel of mist on her scalded flesh
  • Healing was the mist on her injured chest 
  • She'd  lost the race
  • And broken a curse
  • She had won a lifelong case
  • And on a misty day....
  • A smile was all she needed.....
  •  
  • (Scarlet Iris Pain)
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