- Mask to wear and rules to keep.
- Cross to bear but buried deep.
- Helping hand just slapped aside.
- Burning light in shadows hide.
- Welcomed guests but cloned from mold.
- See the hearth from out in cold.
- Words and tongues, and growls and groans,
- Sticks and stones, and broken bones.
- Misshaped heart that does not fit.
- Echoed silence, e’er I sit.
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