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Cannot Move From HereReady? Unready / To step swiftly through the inviting crowd / Of potential impossible beginnings
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Aug 13, 2013
EndureThe nerves are gone. / It's a phrase familiar but never applied to me. / She's at her wits end.
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Oct 11, 2020
HidingA child cries as loud as she can so that you will hear. / Do you do the same?
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Jan 16, 2014
Innocent RebellionYou sit and swig one, two, three / because you know he will not be home / You take a drag one, two, three
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Jul 28, 2012
Leather ShoesTrailing in these shoes, my feet no longer hurt / Straight line and bearable now / In replace of the pain and dirt
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Mar 4, 2015
Leave Your Personal Life Outside This DoorOh how I wish I could be your perfect server / You turn to those customers / with your stress ridden eyes
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Sep 25, 2013
ModernismI am living in the 1920s / I am missing the shaking tassel dresses, the whispering red lips and the springing curls / I live through the deep emptiness of an uncurled smile from a boy who has a shine in his eye
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Apr 20, 2014
My Holy GhostI am happy now, I am here / I needed a rest, a break away / But I am here now and I promise not to stray
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Feb 16, 2021
PrayPray for me / And I think I do not pray / But - Yeah sure.
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Nov 11, 2020
RelapseThe polyester cardigan grows thin / As I nervously tug at its tiring seam / The silence does not dare to lessen
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Nov 28, 2012
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