By wistful
Date: 2001 May 27
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Guarded

My heart's well guarded from the threats
that would assail its fragile walls.
It's hid in darkest gloomy shadows
where not man nor beast e'er calls.

No one dares to enter in
and brave the maze of fear and pain.
No one even knows for certain
if my heart still there remains.

Though sometimes, when evening winds still
to a simple wisp of air
The faintest sigh can bare be heard
from deep within its solemn lair.

"Oh let me risk myself once more
for sweetest heights of boundless love"
"To revel in that joy and soar
untethered with the stars above"

But then with anguished cry returns
the memory of betrayals of yore
And with that cry the raging wind resumes
and shuts the fortress door.