Innocent I was not born
      When I was sown they said, "Here's the man!
      He's the one who'll make the stand."
      But they didn't know -- in the two they'd made me
      though they hoped -- the two would never be
      the one they wanted all along.

      Innocent I have not dreamed.
      The images I see in sleep are full of fury
      lost in shadows, dark, deep and gory.
      And I, waking, startled, stained with pain
      Find sleep eludes me over again.

      011500 - Kris Kiessling

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