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Lost In Reality
I want to go and never come back
I feel like I was never on track
For the thing I seek the most
Which isn't how many likes I get on a post
How many views I get on snapchat
Now I just want one thing I want to crack
One thing to break or to shatter
To open up without clatter
Or sadness or disappointment or distrust
There is one special thing that I must
Have in my life but guess what
It is always at the rim of my fingertips
Too far too reach like hanging off of a cliff
Trying to reach a nearby sturdy object
To just pull myself up, but I bet
I know I will just fall everytime
I literally feel like I am a mime
What? How? Why?
Because they don't say a word
But when I do say something
It is like no one even heard
I’m locked in a box with my palms
And fingertips laid on invisible glass
Waiting for the right time so I can pass
This stage of feeling so alone
Like a sad melodic tone
That I so softly play on the piano
That I teach myself to get it right even though
I mess up a lot
And I can feel my face feel hot
Of shame as I play
Something wrong.
Like how I handle my life
I don't feel like its mine
I don't feel like I am me
Like the Sydney I was meant to be
Like jeez
Why is it so hard?
Why can't I get it right?
It’s like I have two different lives
At school and at home
It's like a fake syndrome
Called Two Different People Syndrome
Or TDPS, and to be honest
shows imma mess
I wish the girl at school was the girl at home
That ii could just own
One personality and not two
And all i say to myself is,
Look at you
Then I come home to a living nightmare
Then I fall asleep to one I can’t bear
So I wake up, scream, then cry
Tears falling quickly out of my eyes
As I hug my knees to my chest
Knowing I'm alone and that I need rest
But I can't fall asleep
So I look at the tears on my knees
This poem is happening right now
And you are probably wondering how
A girl whos happy and smiles all the time
Could cry so much sometime
And when I said,
“I want to go and never come back”
I didn't mean it like that
I'm not going to hurt myself, I swear
I am just going to tear
Myself with words and poems
Flowing and going to a rhythm
I just want to get out of this cage
And go flip a page
In any type of book
That has freedom and happiness
Like I need a happy series, a happy pack
I want to go and never come back

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This is part one of my series of poems