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Cry for Attention

December 9, 2013
By Anonymous

My mental disorder is a
"Cry for attention"
you say.
My anxiety is an
excuse.
My depression is
imaginary.
My anorexia is
"sick".
I am begging
crying out for
desperate for
attention.

When then,
if I am so starved for attention
do I hide it away
like a robber in the night?
I hide away in the shadows
terrified that someone
any one single soul
might see.
I wear a plastic smile
on a plastic face
Never allowing my

weakness

to show.

How is this, I ask
A cry for attention?

© Anonymous

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