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Parchment Paper

June 12, 2018
By vgvertiz BRONZE, Mission Viejo, California
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We are parchment paper

Clean, crisp, and white.

We begin pure and beautiful

Then we become curious.

And ink begins to show

Every instant

Every moment

Shows

Every memory is written down

The good with a beautiful scrawl

While poor choices are seen as great globs of ink

Throughout the years of being shoved hastily into drawers

And being passed like a silly note

We are continuously cut by the steel blade of our quill

The more we write

The more we hide

We rip ourselves to shreds

We are parchment paper

Once clean now painted

Tainted

But we shall not stop writing

© Tabatha B., Peoria, IL

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