she never needs me
yet she knows i'm there for her
for someday she might
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out of her armor
self-sufficient warrior
loves like a woman
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do you sometimes smile
put aside your tortured thoughts
knowing that i care
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reasons to hate me
i'm one of the oppressors
she knows me better
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beautiful without make up
she ignores the ads
seductive without trying
just being herself
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poet in his cell
writes of an imagined love
he has never known
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once an angel fell
lived love with mortal woman
their own paradise