Beautiful Wonderfulness
Tommy L. Maddox 1972 (North Carolina)
From my darkness, I awake,
The torment and suffering I do shake.
I find myself standing on a cliff’s edge,
Staring out into a beautiful wonderfulness.
The edge begins to crack and crumble,
I step back fearful I might fall and tumble.
Then I stop and the yearning begins.
Into the beautiful wonderfulness, I wish to descend,
But if I fall it will all end right here,
For my heart still belongs to another.
My soul forever swimming in a fiery lake,
So, I step back further and further.
For I know that if I don’t I will not just fall,
I will jump into that beautiful wonderfulness.
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The choice to love or betray love.
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