devan-mclainWhisper

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DespiteI wish I knew how to feel ten times bigger than myself / but I get so lost in the swarm that is me, that is inside of me / this being and entity that I am sometimes too out of touch with

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Sep 30, 2017

I am somethingThis is where you lift me up / Just so I have farther to fall / The harder I hit the ground, the further into the mud and grime I will sink

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Jun 4, 2017

CopeDangerous convictions take such long walks / and change so much after simple talks / I'm overwhelmed when my mind's unkind

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Dec 4, 2015

I was so bitterOh, I don't know what it is / Can't place it / The man wants to stay so I erase him

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Aug 26, 2015

UntitledLeap to see where they bring you when you do exactly what everyone does / Go to see where the bronzed and shiny, the blonde and skinny, the buff and the beautiful, the catchy things sleep here, it's all about the trend and the he said this she said that magazines plastering a wallpaper of celebs and what's-hot on the interior walls structuring my mind / do they feed on your self confidence too?

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Sep 12, 2014

I'm no good at titlesMy shattered brow is not wilted by the weight of disgust and I am lifted from agony / I will lift you out of yours. / Nothing is forever, but pain never heals

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Jul 5, 2014

PoisonI can hear the shadow come / living amoung our tainted hearts / it will sink into your mind

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Dec 17, 2013

UntitledI have to stop / looking into that mirror / I memorize lines that have never yet crossed my face

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Oct 2, 2013

**** youYou didn't just let me fall, you triumphed only by towering above me and pushing me as far beneath you as I could go. / I am here to tell you that you did not win. / YOU DID NOT WIN. YOU DID NOT BEAT ME.

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Aug 17, 2013

Standing So StillSometimes I think about how okay with being sad some people are / how they tread so lightly in their lives / to avoid unsettling the dust that might change something.

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Dec 13, 2012

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