The torture in my breast

I simply can’t suppress

Never feeling free

The guilt is within me

Breathing deeply I can see

The pain will fight to stay in me

Urging on for the release

Dreaming of a day of peace

Wanting no more then to rest

Cleave the ache from within my chest

Waterfalls of salty dew

Fallen within and without you

Free me from the constant need

Driven within paying no heed

The power is striving

Driving

Lying

Begging

Pleading

Needing

Freeing

The pleasure of others must come last

For the anguish to stay in the past

Beating inside that angry spirit

Liberate it

Do not fear it

Unbind it from your prison

Freedom within the schism

Anwen, August 19, 2004

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