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Another Depressing Poem by a Happy Girl
  Trying to be someone is pointless,
  Finding fame is useless,
  Love is not ‘the answer’ as claimed,
  Indeed, I ask you, answer to what?
  Can you find words to describe life?
  This is what I am trying to do.
  By writing this poem I am trying to find,
  In essence,
  Myself.
  Why I am here?
  Pretending the be someone I’m not,
  Listening to music I don’t like,
  Just to empress?
  Just to fit in?
  I am me and no one can change that,
  That is my constant chide to myself.
  But can I fool myself?
  Surrounded by suppressed emotions,
  Can’t I leave this cycle?
  Sometimes I wish I could read their minds,
  Or else look through their eyes to see me,
  As they see me,
  That strange blonde girl,
  Or someone, something, else?
  Here I am, unable to take a leap of faith,
  Here I am, two pages long,
  Here I am, hiding under a cheap mask,
  Why?
  I do not know.

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My brain was full, yet my poem was empty.