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vickie Feb 2020
You surround yourself in false hopes and imaginary beliefs, the blanket that keeps you warm on what feels like a cold night. The feeling when the fireworks go off and the adrenaline rush when you’re heart rips into small pieces waiting to be put back together like a puzzle that nobody can ever seem to solve. The overarching demon at your shoulder telling you that she is prettier and better. Telling you how you should listen to the words you spew out and how ridiculous every vowel sounds. Falling off a cliff of expectation and hitting the concrete ground of reality which is unforgiving and breaks you in an instant. You get back up just to slip again and it's the cycle that will spin like a carousel until it breaks you down and you can’t be fixed. After all, there is no maintenance that can be done to someone who doesn't want to be fixed.
vickie Feb 2020
We drown ourselves in oceans of self pity and hopelessness
Hoping for the moment someone accepts us
But we never realize the damage it does
We ask ourselves why we buy roses even though we know about the thorns
How even though they might ***** you it's worth it because the pain is worth the beauty.
But you realize that the beast in your castle may not always be that pretty.
And the roses might be old and withered.
Even so we have this expectation that our beast will have beauty in it if you’re persistent enough
And our beast is our mindset and our mindset is our motivation
If our beast was truly beautiful then maybe we would be successful
Maybe we would be good enough to get that scholarship
Maybe we would be good enough to bloom from being fake flowers to real ones.
Maybe the moon wouldn't feel so far away anymore maybe our goals wouldn't sink to the bottom of the shark tank.
maybe we would feel accepted into a unforgiving society that gives one part for acceptance and 99 parts for judgement and irreversible criticism

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