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Please

Please touch me that I may feel.
Hold me tight and make it seem real.
Return what I've lost, from years in the cold,
someone please love me, before I grow old.

Please take me away from this unending pain,
my life without love ... my heart so tearstained.
My passion imprisoned, captured by fear.
My soul it does scream, though no one does hear.

Somebody please notice, my silent disease.
Help me, I'm dying. I'm drowning. Please see.
Somebody, anybody show me how to go on.
Don't leave me this way, unloved and alone.

1996