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by Wetdryvac
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The Ripple Effect
February 24, 1992
it ��s four o ��clock in the mourning
I sit here musing early
I sent a letter yesterday
I think ��
my timing is growing stranger
the longer I lack sleep
I do not know the answer
it grows, you know, ever stranger
that to whom I sent the letter
may not know how to deal with it
it is a letter of my weakness
that which I could never speak of
that which I find frightening
that from which I run
you see ��
I told this person of my problems
in this letter I remember
and now she has to face them
though I could not stand alone
I was facing into the hurricane
she the eye of the storm
and now the clouds circle in about us
I could have fallen alone
it would have been no dishonor
to know I had not disturbed her calm
how can she accept my problems
when she must have her own?
she said I should tell her
so I did
I trusted her to ease the pain
but did not ask if the pain was mine alone
ah, I should not have sent the letter
it makes the troubles harder
for I don ��t know
can she be strong where I am failing
is it more wrong to hurt another
or to hurt yourself?
it seems there should be a midway point
an eye to the storm
yet look upon this problem
if she is the eye of the hurricane
and I face out into the wind
closing counter clock to her spin
the winds may follow me
I wish to leave her painless
yet it seems she does want to help
could it be that in her helping me
I may tear her apart
you could tell me it ��s unreal
this trouble I am seeing
that no matter what I will never do her harm
for if harming her is the only self saving option
I would rather stand in the storm
and so I look to her eye
she who is at peace
and hope that she can face the problems
that forced me to break down
I wish that she may help me
that she can help herself
that all this effort
agony
does not come back to harm her
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