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#470181voted by our readers
By lydia.w GOLD
Myerstown, Pennsylvania

With every thought He sunk deeper and deeper With every night The urge became stronger No one knew, at the time How bad he has gotten It's something No one would ever s...
lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
11 articles 7 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...
And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I'd be lying...
Because I was born to be the other woman.
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.


#470182 Poetry
By Will31 BRONZE
Hartland, Wisconsin
Will31 BRONZE, Hartland, Wisconsin
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#470183 Poetry
By Nated315 DIAMOND
Georgetown, New York
Nated315 DIAMOND, Georgetown, New York
92 articles 7 photos 105 comments

Favorite Quote:
Truth has many shades. It's not a matter of black and white, but many grays.

#470184 Poetry
By Jesscaivano BRONZE
New City, New York
Jesscaivano BRONZE, New City, New York
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#470185 Poetry
By Anonymous
#470186 Poetry
By more_weight PLATINUM
Danville, Virginia
more_weight PLATINUM, Danville, Virginia
39 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
Tread softly, for you thread on my dreams.

#470187 Poetry
bakedbeans PLATINUM, Baltimore, Maryland
20 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
People often ask me "why are you so fast?" and my reply was "ask a basketball player why he or she keep making three point shots in a row or ask a football player why is he so good at breaking tackles. its practice!!! common sense idiot!!!" Charles.C

#470188 Poetry
By sadie-blackangel PLATINUM
Newberg, Oregon
sadie-blackangel PLATINUM, Newberg, Oregon
20 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
I am who I am, Your approval isnt needed

#470189 Poetry
By Anonymous
#470190 Poetry
Dakota_Mayo PLATINUM, Torrington, Wyoming
38 articles 28 photos 3 comments