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Escaping
And just when I thought things couldn't be worse
I found myself suddenly submersed
in that incredibly awful family curse
and once again I was stuck
everything I had tried not to become
scribbled itself on my skin in the mirror I stare back from
snuck up behind me like a phantom
unveiling its havoc
breathing onto my neck's nape
fingers joined as a blade to scrape
it pierced through leaving me with no escape
leaves me on my back like a weed to pluck
Somehow I wasn't as weak as in my past
can finally breathe now that the ghost is unmasked
finally found my way home at last
maybe it wasn't me, but luck
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