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Fool's Duel

December 3, 2025
By zara09 BRONZE, Morgantown, West Virginia
zara09 BRONZE, Morgantown, West Virginia
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Wavering thoughts cloud my mind.

Everything i speak turns into lies. 

What if i leave and never say goodbye? 

Will i be missed or be simply left blind?

My heart bleeds, and the earth is crying; 

nothing stays still while i lay here dying.

My heart and brain play cat and mouse,

Never letting the other out of the house. 

Can i lie here and play pretend, 

never letting my feelings  truly ascend? 

Call me the Joker cause I am a fool, 

a broken story left untold in life’s cruel duel. 


Saying my name under your skin, 

your blood boiling at my patheticness.

You look at me and see a storm, 

made to consume like a void.

Seeing me makes you fear, 

but don’t act as if you weren’t the one

who put me here. 


The author's comments:

This piece is exploring internal conflict and the feeling of being judged by those closest to me. 


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