Pain's Remedy

**Behind the poem...I was sitting on the porch tonight listening to a lot of depressing music & it reminded me so much of the way I used to feel with life & then I took a look at how everything changed when I faced my fears of love and commitment and replaced the solitude air with laughing friends, a loving boyfriend, and whole new and improved persona. Nothing is too strong for love to fight.... **
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Wrists scarred with crimson chains,
Imitated smiles to conceal the pain,
Alluring eyes that restrain the tears,
A tarnished heart laced with fears.
Appearing serene, the soul rages fire,
Raising others with death her secret desire.
Every breath is more hopeless than the last,
with every reviving of the dreadful past.
Stuck in your own imprisonment, yearning freedom
with only the belief you'll find it in nirvana's kingdom.
Instead, a more complex feeling breaks your fall,
----true love conquers all.

Heather M Craig