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IgnoranceSometimes ignorance is bliss / The kind of ignorance that keeps us from knowing how a hospital smells / Or what the person we love the most truly feels about us
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Too YoungShe' s seven years old / She's too young to worry about her thighs touching as she walks / too young to know the what she wants is to be less
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I haveI have a gender. I was born a woman therefore I have fear. / I have fear. I am taught at a young age to fear the monsters that come out at night, on the street corners and in dark allies. / I have a particular monster. When I was 11 I was diagnosed with anxiety, a fire that becomes uncontrollable at times.
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WavesI always feel this way when the wave rushes in / Claiming what is its from the shore / Leaving it barren and
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PurgingWhy is it that once we age we find ourselves defined by our bodies? Something that we have simply become a bystander in has become all of our identity. / Why is it that what grows around my soul is all anyone sees? / Why is it that I am judged for every mark or hair that I didn’t put on my body
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Happiness, or so it seemedHappy, or so it seemed / Happiness with you seems like inadequacy / Happiness may feel like a bad stomach ache
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Old Love, Are you listening?The way I loved you can’t be measured / It can’t be measured in kisses, or sweet nothings / Because we never touched, despite only the slightest of hand holding
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Space explorationI want to take you by the hand and show you things / I want to talk about space / Roll my eyes at you when secretly I can't get enough
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Checking for Vital SignsChecking the pulse on our love in a room that felt so dead was the hardest part / The worst was hearing the faint thump, / only coming from one side, mine.
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The ShadowsAfter all is said and done, what exists now are the shadows / The shadows of what was once torn by the fabrication I created / The shadows tell us a story we know all too well
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