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Written for: restrained_soul

Violent Air

I want to scream at you
But hate can’t leave my throat.
I want to push you down
But violence, I don’t promote.

Flogging me with words,
Fighting without spears –
It’s all I can do to love you
As I have for all these years.

Writing you out of my life
Seems easier than attacking your flanks;
But even the ink of my pen
Is drawing nothing but blanks.

Draining, disintegrated
By wretching despair,
Searching for a silver lining
Through our fiery, degrading air.

©2004, Joe Jenkins