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Come ForthDisrobe this statue! / Something real lies beneath / Rising every morning to adorn that mask,
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Jan 5, 2010
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
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
Don't open my mouthDon't ask me to open my mouth, just so you can look inside and find the words I wasn't going to say. / I tell you I love you because I mean it, not because I've been told to, / and not because I feel any sort of pity.
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Jan 5, 2010
ExcitementDon't choke on your excitement, spit it out! / It's not like you can swallow and digest it, it isn't made for the human body- / Over-excitement is a fatal disease, don't let it overcome your sanity, your common sense.
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Jan 5, 2010
FlyYou and I are nothing but flesh coloured stone, / composed of emotions that should not exist, / Maybe someday we can bring ourselves to just walk by doors we know have been
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Jan 5, 2010
*********** catastrophes / lifting me up and shoving me into the ground / just to show me how worthless I am
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Jan 2, 2012
**** 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
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
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
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