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Betrayal (Remove filter)

EYE FOR AN EYE

 

EYE FOR AN EYE

 

So tell me, is it because I dared to do what I wasn’t meant to

that you turned against me?

Having feelings for my sworn enemy, doing the thing I was sworn

not to, my love turning me a traitor to my cause,

my religion and all my beliefs?

The way the cards fall are often the strangest hand of all.

To save an enemy from the grave, her grave,

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Could Have

 

We could have been friends forever,
but for all those lies that she told,
we could have been lovers for longer,
but those revelations made me feel so cold.
 
Trust is one thing that once fractured,
will never again be truely repaired, 
trust is the foundation stone of it all,
when it crumbles no structure is spared.
 
With the walls of our home cras...

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