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Truth of You

January 29, 2010
By fishpond.india BRONZE, Spindale, North Carolina
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You laugh, I cry
I can see it in your eyes

The evil that surrounds you
It surrounds me too

You brought it
You summoned it
Now banish it

© Rebecca S., Coventry, RI

The author's comments:
I see this as an abbreviation of me. The things we as teens face in our everyday lives can be more than we can handle, and so we try to fight it. We must fight it!
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