AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
IN THE SILENCE OF MY INNOCENCE
Patty refuses to betray her own innocence with a confession of guilt to reduce her sentence
Looking back on how this all came to be
Beyond my vain regrets my self-pity
I’m still not certain how my wool grew black
Not every turn can always be backtracked
Looking sideways I see familiar faces turn away
From the stranger I’ve become
Now I’m just a tribe-of-one
Standing strong on sacred ground
With just my shadow on this dirty floor
To call my own
I will sit and wait I will sit and wait
For fortune’s wheel to turn my way
I will sit and wait I will sit and wait
Here in the stillness at the center of the spokes
Looking at you asking me to trade away
The last remaining untouched part of me
Yes things didn’t work out my way
But how can I abandon my last saving grace
(My only refuge in this cruelest joke)
I’m looking forward to being truly free
To no more conspiring
With the eyes that look down on me
To no more a whore for tiny tender mercies
I will sit and wait I will sit and wait
Here with my loyalty to me
To keep me company
Looking squarely at a price beyond the brink
I refuse to let myself be lynched
With the last thread of my frayed labyrinth string
To buy a warmer bed draped in softer sheets
Where my innocence can never ever sleep
I will sit and wait I will sit and wait
Here where the misunderstood are caged
Here where the lonely struggle to be brave
Looking inside I cannot allow myself
To be forever changed into someone
Who can never be redeemed
Instead I will sit and wait
I will sit and wait
In the space between all things
I will sit and wait
In the silence of my innocence
In the silence of my innocence
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