jaya-gumatay
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unpredictable
Stumbling and mumbling like a bumbling idiot / Feeling like a toddler who is barely learning how to speak / The first steps, tiny baby steps
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pretty
She was taught from a young age that beauty was having pale skin and a bright smile, / But she wasn’t trained to see that beauty itself was somewhere in the writings of a fragile, broken heart. / She was raised in a society where thin bodies were attractive and big bodies were a disgrace
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fishbowl
It feels as if I’m drowning, / Waiting for someone to come and aid me, / But time keeps tick-tick-tocking away
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Roots
When she was 6, / Her wildest dream was to be an astronaut. / Her mom always told her to reach for the stars,
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reassurance
He didn't hold my hand / or kiss my cheek / Instead he held me to his chest,
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blind
They say that love blinds you; / That once you find “the one,” / They will be the only ones you see,
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Ugly
Underneath the ten pounds of make-up / and the personality you fake to please everyone, / the face they deem
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My Neverland
If I were to describe the distance between us, / I wouldn’t know what to compare it to. / They say that the Moon is approximately 238,900 miles away from planet Earth,
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guts
I want to puke my heart out to you / And lie on your doorstep during a snowstorm / Until my lips turn ice cold like your heart.
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Love, me
Dear you, / Love me. / Just love me for who I am, and not for who I’m not
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