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Sleeping Beauty

September 29, 2014
By Anonymous

Once upon a time

I think that's how it goes

It's times like those you search for a sign

Her eyes closed and her hands clasped a rose

To many pills

Not enough friends

Not enough wills

To many ends

Did she wake up?

"Sleeping beauty!"

Or did she give up?

Did her duty


The author's comments:

When I was younger I was abandoned a lot. My mother left to go strike out on her own and I was left with my grandparents, neither of whom were equipped to take care of a child. I held on a bit to tight to my friends and eventually, as children do, they did something a bit to cruel and threw me away. A took over four times my normal dose of sleeping pills. I woke up after three days. Apparently the dosage could have killed me. For a long time I thought it was just a haze I was living in, that I actually hadn't woken up. That one day I'd wake up and find I'd really been in a coma. I was reminded of it one day when I saw that picture that says 'you're in a coma and this is the only way we could reach you'. Thus, this was born. Sleeping beauty, a little girl who loved roses, and never wanted to wake up because no one seemed to want her to. 


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