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Not Every Poem is Pretty
Frustration and Frustration
and Anger and Confusion
And all of these feelings clenched around my lungs
so tight that when I do what I have to do to keep me alive
It Hurts
I walk to discover it hurts
I breathe to discover it stings
And I jump off the edge to discover there's no place I'd rather be
Let me fall to my knees in an empty room
Or shatter the glass that I've always looked through
Let me hear of Betrayal
and speak of Defeat
Let me be showered in tears of others
and have only myself to blame
Let me be
If I'm meant to fall
don't pick me up out of pity
Yet if I'm meant to stand,
don't claim me as a trophy
Let me be
And with iron chains breaking from my wrists
I will call out your name in disgust
As the one who has done everything they can
so see me where I am right now
To see me torn in the places that can't be sewn together
To leave me looking for the seams
Or to leave me looking for the tears
Because that's when it's worst...
When you don't know what's wrong.
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