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 </div><p></p>If I cry gently or if I smile, whoever thinks the smile on my face<br>
Is benign,must be careful,be careful of the end of days<br>
There, is a stain, a pain and a stench,<br>
Of prolonged thought, forgone wrath smoothly refreshed and lying stretch.
<p>Welcome to my institution; welcome to my world, my confidence, my brutal world!<br>
Where loneliness and heartbreak keeps hitting like a rod<br>
Harnessed in finesse fire, to multiply my pains, the pains, oh the pains!<br>
Strangling my hand to pluck my brain out of my mind, my ever trusted brain.</p>
<p>Distributed to several severe struggle, simmered with,<br>
love, the broken pearl, the broken pearl, the scary myth…<br>
It was you love, it is you! You are the cause of my pain, the pains..<br>
Bet you have a hand this time, sure in the end you have nothing to gain</p>
<p>If I cry gently or if I smile, its not just you, love, it’s not just you, and it’s my pride<br>
My pride where my world revolves, where I exist.<br>
Hyperactive to careless words, ill reactions far and wide<br>
You are So stubborn to swallow, easy to harm, gentle, my pride; the place my love exist.</p>
<p>It’s you,my confidant. You tortured and deceived me to forget all I knew, all I know,<br>
about the constant fears, deeply lurked in my heart,<br>
Consciously drenched in blood,as my soul crowed.<br>
The diluted blood crows, the bloody covenant crows!</p>
<p>Where to start? Who to tell? If I cry gently or smile, who Shall listen?<br>
So whoever thinks the smile on my face is benign, must better be careful,<br>
For I was once deceived by love, and then my pride.Who then is faithful?<br>
Would I know that love travels about, with no safe home, no safe haven, only in prison?</p>
<p>Should I have trusted you, my pride? In spite of my agony, in spite of my testimony?<br>
Shall you listen? Or who to rescue me out of this dangerous journey?<br>
Even If I cry gently, or if I smile, whether for help or pretense, all is vain.<br>
And so, This is my story, this is my song, its the covenant, that bloody creepy covenant!</p>
<p>You! It’s you; you are the Genesis of ‘The Battle Within’.<br>
I shall fight my way out, by escape or self denial.<br>
If I cry gently, If i smile…</p>
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