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#440671voted by our readers
By GazelleDeerDoe SILVER
Cincinnati, Ohio

You don't realize how much you need me So you throw me away without knowing it I become your mannequin You dress me up just to set me back down And as soon as you do, my...
GazelleDeerDoe SILVER, Cincinnati, Ohio
8 articles 2 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”


#440672 Poetry
By eerks BRONZE
Brampton, Other
eerks BRONZE, Brampton, Other
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#440673 Poetry
By 18dcg01 BRONZE
Columbia, Missouri
18dcg01 BRONZE, Columbia, Missouri
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#440674 Poetry
By Zoe_W BRONZE
Timnath, Colorado
Zoe_W BRONZE, Timnath, Colorado
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#440675 Poetry
By OrNot.. PLATINUM
Hammond, Louisiana
OrNot.. PLATINUM, Hammond, Louisiana
25 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
" I close my eyes but I can't rest. My body is tired, my mind is wandering. From the past to the east to the west. Trying to take up the blame, you've already taken from me. Can anyone tell me how we learn to live with ourselves?"

#440676 Poetry
By electrichearts SILVER
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
electrichearts SILVER, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
5 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together. "

#440677 Poetry
By pratly2 SILVER
Bath, New York
pratly2 SILVER, Bath, New York
7 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
nobody likes a spotlight when they're likely to fall on their face- isabella swan

#440678 Poetry
By MattMiller SILVER
Orange, California
MattMiller SILVER, Orange, California
6 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
I am who I am.

#440679 Poetry
By LettingGo BRONZE
Glenside, Pennsylvania
LettingGo BRONZE, Glenside, Pennsylvania
3 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours, if it doesn't it never was.

writefearless SILVER, Manila, Other
8 articles 0 photos 48 comments

Favorite Quote:
scare your fear before it scares you.