Darkly Dreaming

  Darkly dreaming I dare not wake

  Lest softly creeping night shall take

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  With gentle touch, everything I shall ever love.

  In my mind, in my heart, an icy touch.

  Myself apart, watching in the backseat

  As I drift through life.

  Aloof, apart, detached to still my heart

  For if it suffers but a single beat

  Then shall my grief consume

  Dream and hopes and possibilities.

  Mayhaps the winter’s bite inside

  Protects me from the cold cruel world.