Everything That Happens

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I'm living here

day to day

because to remember

is to relive

both the hard times

and the happy times

I know I'll never see again.

So I'm living for the smell of the crisp spring air

I'm living for the tear rolling down my cheek,

one more time remembering

remembering

the happy times

I know I'll never see again.

four hundred twenty four years

is such a long time of remembering

such a long line of remembering

So I'm living for the sound of a sleeping breath

I'm living for the pain that tears

my heart right in half

remembering

the happy times

I know I'll never see again.

I thought I'd never love

like that again

But I did:

was it a sin?

and then

you hurt me

and you made me have to leave you

if I wanted to be the

woman

I've worked to hard

to make myself to be

Don't you see?

That's the sin

you sinned

against me

So I'm living for the rumble

of a cat's contented purr

I'm living for the stumble

on an uneven path

I'm living for the glance

of a mother's embrace

I'm living for the trance

I'm living for the moment

living day to day

so I don't have to remember

the hard times

and the happy time

I know I'll never see again.

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