"Meaning Between Extremes"
Just because I walk in darkness
  Doesn't mean I love the night.
And just because I didn't see it
  Doesn't mean I've lost my sight.
Just because I won't surrender
  Doesn't mean I want to fight.
And just because it all went wrong
  Doesn't mean it wasn't right.
   
Just because I never said I love you
  Doesn't mean I didn't care.
And just because you never judged me
  Doesn't mean that you were fair.
Just because I never touched you
  Doesn't mean I wouldn't dare
And just because I had to leave you
  Doesn't mean I won't be there.
   
You only spoke in Love and Hate; you dealt in Black and White
And you knew something must be Wrong if you couldn't prove it Right.
You found Certainty in Simplicity and meaning in extremes,
And I was just another thing misplaced among your dreams.
   
Just because our feet were off the ground
  Doesn't mean we ever flew.
And just because you held all the facts
  Doesn't mean you ever knew.
Just because you never told a lie
  Doesn't mean that you were true.
And just because you chose to say good-bye
  Doesn't mean I said it too.
   
(composed 2000 October 24)

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