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(How can we know Love when we were never shown it?) |
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Little Richie was the runt of the litter, |
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given a thick hide by father and brothers |
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Identified more with his sisters and mother, |
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always felt a bit different from the others |
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A loving marriage from the outside, |
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but oh, how ferociously he'd hit her |
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Richie stood by the bleach white bedside |
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Ma held his face in her hands while he cried: |
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"Hush, now, precious lamb, everything will be alright |
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I know how it looks but I swear he's a good man |
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Oh baby, G-d has a much bigger plan |
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I have my family, I have my health, |
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and I'm quite content with that." |
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"How can you say this time that it'll be alright? |
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How can you still look in his eyes and see the love of your life?" |
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(He works all things for good! In the end, it is Love that wins!) |
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Love was his inclination |
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Belief, his dearest passion |
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A beautiful escape from resentment, |
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fear of the next crushing blow |
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(How can we know Love when were never shown it?) |
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He'd wait on his lonesome for that blue hair in her station wagon |
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Attending those Baptist services alone, |
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in the house of the Lord, he found purpose and a home |
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Richie stood on a chair, peeked over the pulpit, |
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reminded himself and the beloved, not lacking in youthful wit: |
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"This is what's promised: |
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He works all things for good! In the end, it's Love that wins!" |
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How are we to know how to Love when every attempt is met with the back of a hand? |
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It would only be Love to mend the damned, |
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who never grew to know compassion |
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Just another unfortunate, beaten senseless by his old man |
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"How can you say this time that it will be alright? |
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How can you still look in his eyes and see the love of your life?" |
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(He works all things for good! In the end, it's Love that wins!) |
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An heirloom passed down before its day, |
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legacy came violently to rip innocence away |
