By jackryhme   jackryhme@hotmail.com
Date: 10 August 2000
fate
     fate
i sit here softly wondering 
what i should have said 
the night you up and went away 
the night you quietly fled 
should i have sat and held u 
all the long night through 
or raged and raged against those things 
you said i couldn't provide for, for you 
the clock is loudly knocking 
each long second one by one 
as i sit inside this lonely house 
as empty as any tomb 
for without you here beside me 
there is really nothing left to do 
before me is a carving knife 
beside it lies a gun 
as i sit here softly wondering 
both seem to loudly call my name 
paths open wide in front of me 
with guide posts to guide my shame 
saying this way too messy 
this way is too clean 
and a third path to consider 
its sign too dark to be seen 
i know that by mornings fate 
ill have made the deciding choice 
as i sit here and softly wonder 
would i cry if i found my voice? 
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