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Friday, May 25, 2018

"Where It Hurts"

I can see
you're clearly in pain
I have come
to share it with you
Two can bear
more burden than one
I'll bare yours
- if you'll bear it, too
Bare your soul! Spill it out,
let me shadow all your doubt
and all of your anxiety, but first...

You can tell me where it hurts,
and I can make it worse.
Or you can try to bite your tongue,
or you could let me bite it first.

You can tell me where it hurts,
and
I'll be brutally frank:
You brought all this mess
on yourself.
Should have come to me
at the start.
I would not
have put you through hell.
You've tortured yourself for way too long,
come on give someone else a turn
It's only purgatory at worst, and

You can tell me where it hurts,
and I can make it worse.
Or you can try to bite your tongue,
or you could let me bite it first.

You can tell me where it hurts.

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