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Out of curiosity...
     why this eager need to take and try?
It just does not seem to fit
with the intentions of yourself.

Maybe I'm analyzing too much,
     but without knowing the other side
it leaves you
innocent.

Doesn't innocence mean anything
     anymore?

A long lost ideal
in between magnificent memories of a past
and hope for a better future.
That's where my innocence left me.

But what about you?

She says:

Look, I've always wanted
a chance
to experience things.

Living the life I live
leaves me unfulfilled,
sorting out
knowledge
and
truths
leaves me looking
seeking out,
searching for something long gone inside of me.

Growing up
in locked up corridors of my mind,
fueled dreams kept inside,
sewn into me.

I need something
to ease me
to appease me
I haven't found anything
to take the burden off
to make me feel whole.
Innocence is for the weak
and I am strong.
I want to know
I need to know
to know if I am able
to accurately judge
if my life is heading straight
toward ideals I cannot uphold.
That is why I want to know.