Safe in my Soul

Absence now resonates in the aria your eyes sang only for me

Rumbles in the distance waiting to rise in dreams I wish to be

Built a sand fortress to guard memories that sleep dares set free

So, I can feel you safe in my soul, love, a soldier never to flee

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Cruel the wings that took you beyond as I struggled in a roiling sea

Malignant murmurs manhandled a maniacal monster's master key

Dangling innocence over an abyss that rendered me too angry to see

That I feel you safe in my soul, love, a soldier never to flee

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Demonic defiance be damned though deafness fell on mercy's plea

Slapping the stunned face of hope to a place awashed in my naivete

Grief pauses as you relinguish your pain beneath the umbrella tree

While I feel you safe in my soul, love, a soldier never to flee

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Beautiful stalwart, you gave me courage to forge on sans a guarantee

Catch a glimpse of light that lingers from your spirited diehard esprit

As you run through my mind, I touch Heaven through the earth's debris

And, I feel you safe in my soul, love, a soldier never to flee

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