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Heart is a rented room

Cherry

By fey_mouse

Sun, 12 Sep 2004
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Listen to music
So low
Dying embers the notes
Below hearing
Sung under your breath
Echoes of warmth
In the next room
Light comes under the door
The sound of a key

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