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Standard Candle

from Standard Candle by Kenley Young

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I know it's not the same for you.
You've always been a little too tender.
You owe it to yourself to look first to your health,
But I know you'll let this eat right through.

There's no conspiracy you must undo.
And no one's trying to touch what you've engendered.
Things die on the vine, and the call I made was mine.
So put away the plans you drew.

You say all sin is trespass or betrayal.
And if that's so, then I was doomed to fail.

I know you need a target now.
I wish that I could figure how to be one.
These things you can abandon, but can't ignore your hand in.
So add that to your furrowed brow.

Should I not be defending him?
He obviously knows a gem when he sees one.
So get it out your system. He may lack your wisdom,
But I'm who tore you limb from limb.

You say all sin is trespass or betrayal.
And if that's true, then we're all doomed to fail.

You planned to follow me until the very end.
You say you've touched no one the way you touched me then--
I spoiled you when I took you and drugged you on my taste--
You feel no heat with anyone and keep nothing you've chased.

At night, I've seen you driving by,
And even parking under my window,
I've seen your wires and handles, and as your standard candle
I know you set the bar too high.

Your compass tells you that there's victim and there's thief.
You wonder why I'm not a party to your grief,
As if you'd have me scream what everybody knows:
I'm sorry from as deep inside me as it goes.

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from Standard Candle, released July 18, 2009

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