Before These Crowded Streets
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Before these crowded streets
I search for my belated lover
Torn and ripped away from the world
I stand there looking above, wondering
The precious smile that was for me
Has been sent to the heavens
Never to be felt again

Before these crowded streets
I lay down my heart
Everyone stares but no one can understand
They can not see past what lies before them
Judging what they see, they condemn without thought
For they've never learned to live

Before these crowded streets
I search for my life
Once alive, now ash
Once bright, now dim
Hard to see with all the rubberneckers
Lost to the world
I will be forgotten at dawn
And thought nevermore, for all eternity

A.J. Dinardo - 08/??/1999
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